Whether it’s improved processes, new revenue models, or even full automation of operations, digital technologies are enabling small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) to scale, drive productivity, and compete effectively in their markets. In fact, 82% of S…
While online dating apps have grown increasingly popular over the past 10 years, they’ve also become a hot spot for hackers.
Email is such an integral part of everyday life we tend to ignore, or simply be unaware, that it is the biggest single threat to cybersecurity. Yet almost all cybercrime is either email-based, or employs email as part of the process.
Wordfence, the security plugin for WordPress sites, reported in its blog this week that its Threat Intelligence Team observed a single malware campaign target more than 900,000 WordPress sites over the past month, with over half of the attacks occurrin…
Today is World Password Day, and in a recent interview with TechRepublic, the COO of password management provider 1Password estimated that we currently have about 100 billion passwords protecting our digital gateways.
We are pleased to announce Avast’s investment and membership in prpl Foundation. The prpl Foundation strives to enable “high-velocity, service-driven innovation on customer-premises equipment by harmonizing interfaces in open APIs and delivering open-s…
For those who are new to security, it may be a surprise that the one of the farthest reaching and devastating computer viruses, ILOVEYOU virus, first appeared 20 years ago this week. The virus originated in the Philippines and arrived in the form of an…
Fresh from winning the 2019 AI Awards ‘Event of the Year’, Avast and the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) have announced details of 2020’s CyberSec&AI Connected conference.
Creating a new patch management policy
Patch management enables code changes to be tested and installed on a device’s existing Windows-operating applications. It updates systems on the latest patches (codes) available and ascertains which ones to use,…
Long before COVID-19, some notable behind-the-scenes forces were in motion to elevate cybersecurity to a much higher level.