NBC’s The Office is just a show about ordinary lives in an ordinary — even boring — office park. And yet it’s arguably one of the most popular television shows of all time. In its total mundanity, it manages to highlight deep and almost uni…
Commission-free stock trading company Robinhood published a blog post announcing it was the victim of a data security incident where hackers obtained 500 million email addresses, 200 million full names, and more specific personal informatio…
You can think of your computer like a house. You don’t want strangers being able to come and go into your house as they please. The same goes with your computer and network traffic. In the early days of computers, they were wide open — any …
What would a digital identity solution look like for older generations? Not to throw too much shade on my mom, but she’s not the most tech-savvy. I mean, I have a distinct memory of her in the ‘90s trying to flip over a CD to listen to the …
Last week, Global Fund for Children (GFC) and the Avast Foundation together launched the Spark Fund, a new fund to support youth organizations around the world that are tackling injustice and inequality, driving transformational change, and…
Last week, the third annual CyberSec&AI Connected was held virtually. There were many sessions that combined academic and industry researchers along with leaders from Avast to explore the intersection of security and privacy and how AI …
Facebook recently announced that they will be shutting down its facial recognition in the coming weeks. You may have seen this feature in action if you have ever uploaded a picture to Facebook and seen how it can suggest people to tag withi…
A key rule in security is that you can only secure what you can see.
In that regard, one of the oldest and biggest challenges that businesses and network administrators have faced and continue to face is a seemingly simple one: knowing exa…
The problem with Wi-Fi networks and VPNs
Like we noted in a previous post about the right time to use a VPN, you may not want to have a virtual private network (VPN) running all the time. However, this can leave you open to security risks …
“In the coming weeks, Meta will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products,” wrote Meta VP of Artificial Intelligence Jerome Pesenti in a blog post…