Earlier in June, CogX Festival brought together representatives from business and government to discuss innovation. It was a follow-on to a 2019 event sponsored by several partners including Accenture, BT and Visa. While the conference was …
While Pride Month may officially be coming to a close, we’ve pledged to keep the spirit alive year-round here at Avast. As far as we’re concerned, inclusivity and diversity are always in season.
We held a company-wide Pride event las…
This post was written by Alexej Savcin and Michal Stanek.
When Jamil Qandah got a call from Avast tech support, he had no reason to think that it wasn’t really us calling. It wasn’t until the “tech support” stole his life savings of over $…
When you use public Wi-Fi networks, your sensitive information can be at risk. Attackers can try to capture your Wi-Fi network traffic to gather information you’re exchanging with sites on the internet. They can also try to capture key info…
Analyzing all the threat intelligence we’ve collected in the first five months of the year, Avast mobile threat researchers have been able to identify the greatest threats to Android devices in 2021. By a vast margin, the most common danger…
Nonprofit privacy activist group Fight for the Future has launched a new website that tracks the decisions of major American colleges and universities to either do away with or continue using eproctoring software – apps that, Fight for the Future claim…
How anonymous are your usernames? Do you have more than one? Few people follow username best practices. If you’re like most people, your username is some version of your real name. Maybe it’s your first initial and your last name, or maybe it has your …
If you’ve been following Amazon’s move towards having physical storefronts, you probably have seen the news about a series of different types of retail stores they have created, including bookstores, grocery stores, general merchandise stores, and shop…
Strap in, kids, because this one is going to be a doozy: This week’s What Does The Internet Know About Me? is all about Facebook and its subsidiary, Instagram. Since Zuck pretty much invented the “free” service in exchange for all of your personal info…
“Here’s how it works!” Dan Aykroyd energetically tells the SNL audience. “Catch a bass, remove the hook, and drop the bass – that’s the WHOLE bass – in the Bass-O-Matic 76!” As he says this in his best punchy announcer voice, he picks up a real fi…