Throughout 2021, cybercriminals continued to take advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic, exploiting people’s habits formed during lockdown to spread scams. Ransomware, crypto malware, and scams continued to prevail, and on the mobile side, adw…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Avast Mobile Security (AMS). We’re so proud to have helped Android users improve their phone’s security, privacy, and performance for an entire decade!
If you are going online this holiday season (and let’s be real — we all are), then you’ve seen the notice urging you to “accept all cookies.” Have you ever wondered what that means? You’re not the only one! Since we all apparently have cook…
A new poll commissioned by e-commerce search specialist Empathy.co revealed that most shoppers distrust online stores and choose not to share personal data with them. In the survey conducted by Censuswide, 4,000 British consumers were asked…
The latest smartphones, laptops, and internet-connected devices are always among the holiday season’s hottest gifts. It’s such an amazing feeling starting from scratch with sleek hardware, a smudge-free screen, and an uncluttered Operating …
Attackers hide malware in cracked, illegal, unauthorized, repackaged copies of software, giving people who are themselves trying to steal software more than they bargained for. This summer, we talked about Crackonosh hiding in cracked versi…
George Orwell’s classic book, 1984 — written in 1949 — envisioned a dystopian future in which human beings are constantly monitored and surveilled. In the novel, Great Britain – known as Air Strip One – is ruled by a totalitarian gove…
The Avast Foundation has conducted a study polling people across the U.S. between the ages of 16 to 55+ to understand the drivers of trolling and how activity differs across generations, locations, topics, and victims.
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At the beginning of the pandemic, Jon Callas was a technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Now, after nearly two years of dealing with Covid-19, Callas is the Director of Technology…
Two years ago, the Coalition Against Stalkerware was founded by ten organizations. Today, Avast is one of more than 40 members, which include technology vendors, NGOs, academia, and police organizations from various countries. The goal of t…