This piece was written by Joe Bosso and Juyong Do.
Have you ever talked about a product with someone, only to have it show up in an ad online the next day or even a couple of hours later? It probably took you aback; made you wonder, “How c…
Twitter’s original goal was to make it possible for one person to speak to many people all at once — basically, the biggest group chat anyone had ever imagined. So it’s probably not surprising that privacy isn’t really the first thing that …
Over the past year, we’ve seen a new trend emerge among cyber threats: Professional Channel Attacks. In the past, you only had to worry about your personal email and social channel security. Now attackers are creating elaborate schemes to s…
Over the past year, we’ve seen a new trend emerge among cyber threats: Professional Channel Attacks. In the past, you only had to worry about your personal email and social channel security. Now attackers are creating elaborate schemes to s…
Apple is taking steps to combat child sex abuse materials (CSAM), including implementing technology that will detect known-CSAM uploaded to iCloud; an iMessage feature that will alert parents if their child sends or receives an image with n…
Mass-mailing service Mailgun had one of its larger accounts – the email marketing account for fast-food chain Chipotle – compromised and used to target USAA users, Microsoft users, and others with malware, according to anti-phish agenc…
Thirty years ago this week, Tim Berners-Lee published the first web page to the internet, kicking off a wave of excitement — and debate — about the potential for the world’s largest interconnected information system to open access to educat…
It’s often bad news when an obscure tech term becomes mainstream. Think about “spam,” the plague of unsolicited mass email that threatened to “destroy the internet” twenty years ago. Or even the whole field of cybersecurity, a good example …
We recently released our Avast Global PC Risk Report H1 2021 Snapshot and there’s good information that small and medium businesses (SMBs) can use to better understand what the security landscape is looking like in the Covid-19 era.
If you…
I’m old enough to remember a time when Amazon was just a cheaper way to get your (overpriced) college textbooks. “Prime” referred primarily to beef. Same-day shipping was a pipe dream. No one knew Jeff Bezos’ name.
It was a simpler time.&n…