Poor Sony. They are getting it from all directions these days. On Sunday, the PlayStation Network, the online store for games, movies, and TV shows, suffered a hacker attack and was knocked offline. Visitors to the store got a message that said, ‘Page Not Found! It’s not you. It’s the Internet’s fault.’ I just visited […]
Cybercrooks target busy holiday shoppers with phishing scheme. After all that shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, consumers are reporting a bunch of phishing emails that look like authentic communications from poular stores. Malware-infected emails are reportedly coming from Walmart, Home Depot, Target, and Costco. The catch is these are not from the authentic […]
Some webpages are giving away free codes for Playstation Network and Steam but, are they reliable? At Avast we discovered a lot of webpages offering free codes, with a value from $20 to $50, for Playstation Network and Steam, two of the most important internet-based digital distribution platforms. Those webpages look very suspicious so we […]
Losing contacts from your mobile phone is highly inconvenient. There’s seems to be a solution – You can find them online! The catch? Your contacts are in a publicly accessible place. Seriously. If you care for your privacy you should always be suspicious about “Cloud Backup” solutions you find in the Google Play Store. The […]
#GivingTuesday is a day dedicated to give from the bounty we have received. After the shopping free-for-all of Black Friday, the local discoveries of Small Business Saturday, and the online click frenzy of Cyber Monday, people the world over have a day for giving thanks. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, charities, families, businesses, community centers, […]
Many Avast users have protected their family member’s computers and mobile devices with Avast Antivirus products. In order to help you manage everyone’s security, our development team created a portal called the MyAvast Account. Our blog, Keep track of your family’s devices using your Avast Account, explains the basics. Hopefully, you have already looked at […]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday abound with deals on laptops. When you purchase a new laptop one of the first things you should do is make sure that it is secure with your choice of antivirus protection. You will probably find that antivirus is already pre-installed, for example, Windows Defender is built into devices that […]
Cybercrooks believe that their attacks are more likely to succeed during the holiday shopping season. Retailers have been “leaking” special Black Friday deals since before Buffalo got covered in a snow wall, and that flurry of sales results in the annual spike that carries them through the rest of the year. But analysts who […]
It was great to see so many people who recognize the Avast brand and use our products at CARTES. We would like to say once more: Thank you so much! Every couple of minutes, we had a friendly visit from some of our fans and we always tried to talk to them for a while. […]
If your home router is hacked, you have a serious situation on your hands. When an Avast Home Network Security scan finds that your router is already compromised, this notification will appear. This means that the router has been hacked and the DNS settings have been modified to serve hacked contents to a cyberthief. This […]