Avast Business Cybersecurity Skills Series – Are you Registered? | Avast Business

After hosting our Cybersecurity Essentials Master Course in our first two cities, feedback and appreciation have been strong. In fact, so positive that we’ve added a last tour date in Manchester, UK with new speakers.  There is also still time t…

Premier One transforms patch management with Managed Workplace | Avast Business

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Headquartered in Topeka, Kansas, Premier One provides managed IT and security services, as well as IT consulting, to small businesses. The company’s clients include service-based industries, such as title insurance, accounting, legal, a…

Hacker creates seven new variants of the Mirai botnet | Avast

In September 2016, Twitter, CNN, Spotify, and many others were knocked offline by the biggest DDoS attack in history. Today we know it by the name Mirai, but no one would have imagined at the time that this attack was coming from a herd of Internet of …

Android device firmware cheats Chinese ad networks | Avast

After publishing our story about pre-installed malware on Android devices, we continued to analyze the firmware images of cheap Android devices. It is a rather sad endeavour, as our statistics put pre-installed malware as one of the top infection vecto…

AWS FreeRTOS Riddled with Security Vulnerabilities | Avast

Researchers from Zimperium’s zLabs team have discovered that the popular Internet of Things real-time operating system from AWS – FreeRTOS – is riddled with serious vulnerabilities that could let hackers crash connected devices in homes or critical inf…