Today’s kids are growing up with not only their friends and siblings posting pictures of them, but sometimes years and years of photos that their parents posted before they had a say in the matter. As a result, it’s pretty common for a kid to ask someo…
By any measure, connected devices are going to play prominent roles in our future lives. They’ll be everywhere – connecting items in our homes, our workplaces, our cars and our public buildings to the web, tracking usage and offering instant access to …
We’re less than a week away from the 2020 U.S. election, and there has been news of a ransomware attack in northern Georgia. The attack hit a network that supports the Hall County government infrastructure and includes election and telephone systems. I…
By now, many of you know that your online shopping and social media usage patterns can be tracked and recorded. This includes data about your political preferences, which is especially relevant given the approaching elections.
SE Labs is a London-based company dedicated to testing all emerging security technology and services in an effort to help consumers make sense of all the options available. The company recently published its Annual Report 2020, in which Avast Free Anti…
Young Gen Xers and old millennials were considered the first “digital natives” because we came of age with the internet. But let’s be real: No one is more “digital native” than Gen Z and the youngest among us, Generation Alpha. If you’re a parent and y…
Within the Aposemat Team, we’ve been working on testing the capabilities of IPv6 and how malware could take advantage of it. One of the topics we explored was exfiltration of data via the IPv6 protocol. In this post, we share our study into this topic….
I love YouTube. Whenever I need to learn how to fix something or want to learn to make something new in the kitchen, I turn to its endless videos.
Following the discovery of adware apps in June and a report from a 12-year-old Czech girl in September, the team at Avast has uncovered another set of malicious apps in the Google Play Store.
I recently hosted a Women in Business Expo roundtable — which included participants from different cultures, backgrounds, and walks of life — on the topic of working in a technology role and managing Imposter Syndrome. Some of the participants worked…