When Edward Snowden came forward in May 2013, accusing the world’s largest intelligence service of spying on US allies, people, and private companies, it became evident that electronic data is quite vulnerable. This major event even caused Russian and German government officials to consider cataloguing their data, using old-fashioned manual typewriters instead of computers. Should […]
When Edward Snowden came forward in May 2013, accusing the world’s largest intelligence service of spying on US allies, people, and private companies, it became evident that electronic data is quite vulnerable. This major event even caused Russian and German government officials to consider cataloguing their data, using old-fashioned manual typewriters instead of computers. Should […]
U.S. merchants advised to protect themselves against same PoS hack that hit Target and Neiman Marcus last year. More than 1,000 U.S. businesses have had their systems infected by Backoff, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware that was linked to the remote-access attacks against Target, Michaels, and P.F. Chang’s last year and more recently, UPS and Dairy […]
John Smith works for a small business with ten employees. The company is sending John abroad to meet with potential investors. Being the productive employee that John is, he connects to the public Wi-Fi provided by the airport to do some work. He visits the investors’ websites and sends a few emails to his colleagues. […]
One of the most dangerous places in America is your local retailer. Before you leave the building with your purchases, you run the risk of having your identity stolen. No doubt you recall the 2013 security breaches at Target, Michael’s, and Neiman Marcus where millions of records were compromised by Point-of-Sale (PoS) attacks. PoS occurs […]
One of the most dangerous places in America is your local retailer. Before you leave the building with your purchases, you run the risk of having your identity stolen. No doubt you recall the 2013 security breaches at Target, Michael’s, and Neiman Marcus where millions of records were compromised by Point-of-Sale (PoS) attacks. PoS occurs […]
Last year, Facebook had the dubious honor of containing more spam than other social networks. In order to combat this scourge, Facebook recently announced a series of improvements to the News Feed to help ensure that spammy content does not drown out the posts that people really want to see from friends and Pages they […]
When Albert Schweitzer said “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory” he could not have possibly known how unhappy future Systems Administrators would be when they have a scheduled maintenance window to deploy anti-virus clients throughout the domain, only to realize that the password to log into the console has been […]
Over the years AVAST has gained an impressive number of users: Over 200 million worldwide. How did AVAST grow into the most trusted security product provider in the world? We got there by launching a very successful freemium business model. We give a quality product, avast! Free Antivirus, away for free. Customers like it and […]
Recently we started a new corner in our blog, SMB/Business, to talk about the avast! business product line. We will focus on topics which are come up during our conversations with resellers and their clients. Today we will present a quick guide to answer this question: How can I correctly reinstall the avast! Antivirus client? […]