Finding out someone’s address used to be kind of hard — or at least took some effort. I’m old enough to remember a time when you had to grab that brick called the “yellow pages” to search for someone’s address. We were taught how to do it i…
Now that you’ve read our blog entry, “What is your digital footprint?”, you know everything you share and do online is permanent and can either help or hurt your reputation. Are you ready to clean up your online reputation for job interview…
If you’re active online, you have a digital footprint. Everyone does. Every comment made on social media, every news article shared, and every purchase made online contributes to a person’s data trail. Your data trail reveals a detailed pic…
Apple recently announced several new privacy features, which is wonderful news. As more and more of our lives become digital, consumer privacy is becoming increasingly important — and many of these new features will be included for all user…
Y’all — I’ve been blackmailed. But I’m going to come clean, here, to you — the Avast readership — so that the blackmailer will no longer have power over me. Get ready, because this is my story.
Is someone watching you right now? You bet. While it’s improbable that someone is staring at you through your computer’s camera this very second, it’s entirely a fact that every move you make online is being tracked by multiple parties. Peo…
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…
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 …
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…