Avast Works With France And US To Stop Cryptomining | Avast
Avast researchers have worked with French and U.S. law enforcement to stop 850,000 infections by a “worm” – or malware that replicates – by causing the threat to destroy itself.
Cybersecurity Tips For Schools | Avast
The education sector is significantly lagging behind when it comes to cybersecurity. Cybercriminals know that schools have limited resources, but mounds of financial and personal data that are easily accessible. According to ED Guards’ Education Indust…
How to Spring Clean Your Digital Life
With winter almost gone, now is the perfect time to start planning your annual spring clean. When we think about our yearly sort out, most of us think about decluttering our chaotic linen cupboards or the wardrobes that we can’t close. But if you want to minimise the opportunities for a hacker to get their […]
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Facebook Transcribing Raises Concerns | Avast
Facebook controversies come and go, but a recent issue involving the surveillance and transcription of users’ conversations seems particularly troubling to government officials, privacy watchdogs, and users. Here are answers to 10 questions you may hav…
Movie Tickets Service Exposed Customer Records, Researchers Say | Avast
Cybersecurity researchers discovered an unprotected and unencrypted database containing over 161 million records belonging to movie ticket subscription service MoviePass. TechCrunch reported that many of the records pertained to daily service operation…
Fingerprinting And The Surveillance Economy | Avast
Many consumers are aware of cookies that track web activity, and their use is fairly well-regulated. But online fingerprinting (also called device fingerprinting) is not as well understood. We believe mainstream media is vastly underestimating how prev…
Garry Kasparov On La Liga And Privacy | Avast
I’ve often written here about how companies exploit our tendency to accept lax security defaults. People don’t have time to read thousands of pages of terms of service or bother to ask why a mobile game needs to know their ID and location. (It’s usuall…
Avast Secure Browser Now Available For Mac | Avast
Mac users have often thought of their computers as a safe haven from many of the security threats that confront Windows users. This summer’s Zoom video conferencing vulnerability and the Mac ransomware threats of 2016-2017 show that is no longer true.&…
Avast Secure Browser Now Available For Mac | Avast
Mac users have often thought of their computers as a safe haven from many of the security threats that confront Windows users. This summer’s Zoom video conferencing vulnerability and the Mac ransomware threats of 2016-2017 show that is no longer true.&…
Kevin Ashton Named The Internet Of Things | Avast
Twenty years ago, Kevin Ashton sat in his cubicle at Procter & Gamble’s research and development offices in Egham, Surrey, just 17 miles from the London Science Museum now featuring cybersecurity and tech history in the exhibit Top Secret. On the s…