This week at Avast, we made the highly anticipated release official: Avast Secure Browser is now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod! And while going through the development process, one question was constantly on our mind: “What does maximum privacy …
This week at Avast, we made the highly anticipated release official: Avast Secure Browser is now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod! And while going through the development process, one question was constantly on our mind: “What does maximum privacy …
Last week, after realizing that I had no idea what my partner had filled my house with — and how our security and privacy might be compromised — I took a deep dive into the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in my home. I found eight different smart devi…
The first week of our Privacy Refresh is all about Facebook. When it comes to collecting information about people, there’s really no social media company that does it quite like they do. While they didn’t invent the “free” social media in exchange for …
My partner loves smart devices, a.k.a. the Internet of Things, a.k.a. IoT. When we first moved in together, it actually made me laugh how excited he’d get about each new gadget. But it also made me kind of uncomfortable, because I had a vague idea that…
By now, most of us know what a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is and how they are accomplished, through leveraging legions of endpoints sending large amounts of network traffic at a target.
As we start to say goodbye (and good riddance!) to 2020, we’re launching our first Privacy Refresh series, aimed at helping you take back your privacy from the hands of the companies who have gathered it. First up: Social media.
Kids — and adults — share stuff online. That’s a given. But with the Covid-19 pandemic leading to everyone spending an increased amount of time online, kids are sharing more than ever. In fact, according to the Avast Kids Online: Generation Lockdown su…
Halloween is looking a little different this year, as communities decide what’s safe and what isn’t in the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic. And, like many of our activities now, there are ways to celebrate Halloween online — safely.
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…