The term digital freedom contains enough ideas to keep an entire university busy for eternity. The ironic etymology of the English word “digital” is worth an amusing aside, by the way. Originally meaning the numbers 1-10 — those you could c…
A years-long research effort between computer scientists at Stony Brook University and private industry researchers have found more than 1,000 new and more sophisticated phishing automation toolkits across the globe. What’s interesting abou…
Let’s start by taking a minute to think about all of the things we use our phones for. If you’re like most people, your phone is probably connected at a minimum to your email, your social media accounts, your browser, your photos, and your …
The US Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s latest report, entitled Countering Disinformation in the US, is the latest analysis to come from this two-year-old bipartisan Congressional think tank. The report, which was released in December, take…
Part of the ongoing collaboration between Diffbot and Avast includes the ongoing research into privacy issues for consumers. As part of this research, we’ve become interested in how an individual’s privacy could vary throughout the world ba…
As defenders, one of the challenges today in cybersecurity detection is our ability to determine whether a multitude of observations on network communications, setting changes, website downloads, and so on represent malicious artifacts lead…
How the Avast Firewall works
Firewall is a feature in Avast Free Antivirus and Avast Premium Security, available for Microsoft Windows.
Online theft is nothing new – but 2021 saw cybercrime go to a whole new level. As we all spent more time at home (and therefore more time online), Avast tracked increases in everything from ransomware to cryptocurrency scams to phishing.&nb…
Anonymity service Tor has been blocked by the Russian government and impersonated by an unknown bad actor. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, known as Roskomnadzor, blocked th…
As 2021 draws to an end, we’d like to examine what the digital landscape of 2022 has in store. In the new year, our team foresees cybercriminals making advancements to ensure the effectiveness of ransomware, a continuation of cryptocurrency…