Tag: Avast
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Best Websites For Fact Checking
Avast Blog – 2.3.21 (2.2.21) If there’s one thing the internet is good at it, it’s sharing information. In fact, it’s probably the thing that the internet is best at. And that’s led to some really incredible things, from literal revolutions to entire new industries to late night Reddit rabbit holes of cute cat videos. Source: Best…
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Reinforcing Smart Home Security
Avast Blog – 1.29.21 (1.27.21) Smart home technology is changing our homes. Today, we live side by side with no shortage of smart devices which make our daily lives easier in various ways. At the same time, these gadgets can create opportunities for attackers. Source: Reinforcing Smart Home Security | Avast
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6 Health Tips For Working From Home
Avast Blog – 1.13.21 (1.11.21) It’s been almost a year since we started staying home because of the pandemic. It’s upended not just our everyday lives, but also our professional ones. As we hunker down to work at home, we lower our risk of exposure to coronavirus, but are we also increasing our risk for…
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Covid-19 Vaccine Passports
Avast Blog – 1.11.21 (1.7.21) As the number of people getting vaccinated against Covid-19 rises, it’s time to review the ways that people can prove they have been inoculated when they want to cross international borders. Source: Covid-19 Vaccine Passports | Avast
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Upgrading Software Of Democracy
Avast Blog – 12.10.20 When The Economist asked me to contribute an article on how technology can help save democracy, I jumped at the chance. Tech and politics have been my twin passions for most of my life, although I was rarely able to indulge them since they were relegated by my overriding concern: chess. Source:…
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Locking Down Smart Home Security
Avast Blog – 11.18.20 (11.17.20) 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 devices that were…
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Apple Fixes Numerous Zero-Day iOS Flaws
Avast Blog – 11.9.20 (11.6.20) Researchers at Google’s Project Zero have found a series of remote execution, memory leak, and kernel privilege escalation bugs in both iOS and iPadOS. Users who are running older OS versions should update their devices to 14.2 as soon as possible. Source: Apple Fixes Numerous Zero-Day iOS Flaws | Avast
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Successfully and Securely Working From Anywhere
Avast Blog – 11.4.20 (11.3.20) I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Women in Business event, which was held virtually this year. I spoke about the experience of quickly and securely moving Avast — a global company with nearly 2,000 employees based in countries around the world — to a fully remote working…