Ring Hack Shows Need For IoT Security | Avast
A chilling incident in which a hacker harassed a child through a Mississippi family’s Ring security system is the latest event pointing out the need for home network security, Avast’s Leena Elias says ... Read More
How Small Businesses Approach Digital Transformation | Avast
As digital technologies enable better ways of working, there are more devices connecting to networks and more employees working outside the corporate office than ever before. One look at the exploding Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) market — expected to reach $366 billion by 2022 — is even more evidence ... Read More
Pensacola Hit with Ransomware Attack | Avast
The city of Pensacola, Fla. is recovering from a ransomware attack by the Maze group, which shut down the city the day after a shooting at its Naval Air Station. Maze, which has launched other recent U.S. ransomware attacks, told Bleeping Computer the attack was not related to the shooting, ... Read More
Stay Safe Working Remotely Over The Holidays | Avast
New data shows that good work-from-home cybersecurity habits have never been a more relevant topic than right now, in the 2019 holiday season ... Read More
How Hackers Get Our CVV Numbers | Avast
The end-of-year online buying season is a bank fraud frenzy. This used to be done by criminals using stolen or cloned payment cards in person, via card-present (CP) fraudulent transactions. The introduction of chip-based Europay, Mastercard, and Visa (EMV) cards has changed this. CP fraud is now much more difficult ... Read More
Avast Helps Entrepreneur Launch Her Startup | Avast
Avast is helping a 22-year-old entrepreneur who was fed her mother’s homemade baby food as an infant to launch a company to grow, make, and deliver similar baby food to other families ... Read More
Avast Threat Labs Uncovers Brazil Cyberattacks | Avast
In late November the Avast Threat Labs team discovered cyberattacks that exploited Brazilian users’ routers to send them to phishing pages designed to look like actual websites the victim wanted to visit. In this case, sites included Brazilian banking, and news sites, as well as Netflix ... Read More
Two Russian Hackers Wanted for Widespread Cyberattacks | Avast
The U.S. Department of Justice is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of two Russian hackers allegedly responsible for tens of millions of dollars in damages due to cybercrime. NBC News reported that Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev are accused of attacking several institutions in ... Read More
PKI Is The Cornerstone Of Digital Privacy | Avast
For decades, the cornerstone of IT security has been Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI, a system that allows you to encrypt and sign data, issuing digital certificates that authenticate the identity of users ... Read More
Avast Releases 2020 Threat Landscape Report | Avast
In the new 2020 release of its annual Threat Landscape Report, Avast predicts criminals will innovate malicious emails by harnessing sophisticated tools; the mobile industry will be hit by more subscription scams; and IoT data will be a major target. At the same time artificial intelligence that protects privacy will ... Read More
