In a bulletin posted on its site, healthcare facility network Memorial Health System, based in West Virginia and Ohio, said it was beginning the process of recovery and restoration after being hit with a ransomware attack earlier in the wee…
“She doesn’t just talk the talk, she also walks the walk every day in and day out for a service most of the planet has come to depend on,” says Avast CISO Jaya Baloo, introducing Heather Adkins, Senior Director of Information Security and P…
This post was written by the following Avast researchers:Petr Somol, Avast Director AI ResearchTomáš Pevný, Avast Principal AI ScientistAndrew B. Gardner, Avast VP Research & AI
The automated detection of threats — by analyzing emails,…
Even if you don’t know much about internet security, you’ve probably heard the term firewall, if only from movies and shows about hackers trying to break into computer systems. The term firewall originally came from a flame resistant barrie…
Full confession: I do not use TikTok. As a certified Old Millennial, the only places I’ve watched TikTok videos (is that what the kids call them?) is when they’re reposted to Instagram. I chose not to jump on that particular social media ba…
Did you know that out of the 8.9 million enterprise malware reports that Microsoft had in the last 30 days that over 60% came from education? The next closest industry is business and professional services, at only 10%.
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published a paper this week in which they outline how a passive form of the TEMPEST attack, called Glowworm, can reconstruct the sound passing through a computer’s speakers by analyzing the …
Angela McNamara, a Facebook user in Canada, got three bad surprises in a row. First, her Facebook profile was hacked and taken over. Second, the attackers activated Facebook’s two-factor authentication (2FA), using the extra security featur…
Charles Walton joined Avast as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Identity in June 2021 to push the company forward in the digital identity space. He started off studying control theory in university and planned to work for an…
This just in — Avast Antivirus has been awarded the top score for AV-Comparatives’ 2021 Anti-Phishing Certification Test. Every year, AV-Comparatives publishes the results of their phishing protection test, which evaluate the protection pro…