“I’ve always found the best way to get a kid to learn how to hack is to tell them to just never use the computer,” Dave Aitel confides to Jaya Baloo in Episode 8 of our podcast Avast Hacker Archives (AHA). Dave is speaking from experience. …
“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…
It is with deep sadness that I must share that Vince Steckler, our former CEO, my predecessor and mentor, dear friend and Avastian legend, passed away in a tragic car accident on Tuesday this week.
At the age of 12, Wendy Nather was living in Israel. Her father was a professor at the University of Tel Aviv, and when she complained to him one day that she was bored, his response launched her on the course that quickly became her life’s calling. Th…
Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, tech optimist, Avast Security Ambassador and an advocate both of AI and digital human rights, will soon be hosting a “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit. In addition to answering questions raised by Re…
At this year’s Collision conference, a virtual panel of leaders debated the major societal issue of tech abuse. The panel, led by Avast CISO Jaya Baloo, featured:
Erica Olsen, Director of Safety Net at the National Network to End Domestic Violence …
It’s no coincidence that when our pandemic-stricken world went into lockdown mode in 2020, incidents of abuse via stalkerware spiked, especially in situations where the victimizer did not live with the victim. Then, as the lockdown began to be lifted i…
Garry Kasparov is worried about America. The Chess Grandmaster and Avast Ambassador grew up in the Soviet Union and has spent much of the 21st Century as a political activist pushing back against repressive regimes. And the segmentation of Americans in…
Jaya Baloo, Avast’s Chief Information Security Officer, never meant to work in tech. Born in India on International Women’s Day, Baloo moved to the US at age four when her parents started working for the United Nations in New York City. That’s where sh…
The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator (CTA) is an organization funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that focuses on advancing research into accessible coronavirus treatments. While the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are …