There’s a new social media app in town and it’s making waves. BeReal — which launched in 2020 but didn’t really start gaining traction until midway through 2022 — encourages people to step away from the curation and filtering of other social m…
From Austin to Paris, and then from Paris to Toronto, I joined Ondrej Vlcek, back then Avast’s CEO and today President at NortonLifeLock, at my third conference (and country) in three weeks. Speaking with Ondrej at Collision has become a welco…
Getting infected with malware isn’t just clicking on an errant file, but it usually occurs because an entire ecosystem is created by attackers to fool you into actually doing the click. This is the very technique behind something called SEO po…
A new study on the privacy policies of thousands of internationally popular apps has revealed that some of those policies vary by location. Out of 5,684 apps analyzed, 103 had policy differences based on country. Users in areas without data pr…
I recently got a Facebook message that shook me. It was from an old roommate who I hadn’t spoken to in about 10 years. She told me she’d been in an abusive relationship and was trying to set up a GoFundMe to help her get away from her boyfrien…
Avast is publicly committing to becoming one of the founding supporters of the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF). The OWF is the inaugural project of the newly formed Linux Foundation Europe, an extension of the Linux Foundation, the world’s leading…
This week, in one of the biggest leaks in videogame history, a GTAForums user by the name of “teapotuberhacker” posted 90 videos from a test build of Grand Theft Auto 6. Gameplay scenes include a waffle shop robbery, some Vice City locations, …
Go to any children’s performance, birthday party, or even just a day at the beach and you’ll see a sea of cellphones snapping pics. And who can blame those snap-happy parents? Children, like pets, are perpetually adorable to the humans who lov…
Last week, an 18-year old hacker used social engineering techniques to compromise Uber’s network. He compromised an employee’s Slack login and then used it to send a message to Uber employees announcing that it had suffered a data breach. Uber…
Last week, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center issued a public warning claiming that they have “identified an increasing number of vulnerabilities posed by unpatched medical devices.” They stated that these devices, such as insulin pumps…