Tag: Avast
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Back to school: 7 tips for improving your middle schooler’s digital literacy
Avast Blog – 8.17.22 New transitions sometimes bring new schools and friends. Enter middle school. Tweens are constantly navigating digital dilemmas. As your Middle Schooler becomes a more confident internet user, it’s important to continue having conversations about online safety and privacy. Source: Back to school: 7 tips for improving your middle schooler’s digital literacy
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Are young people sharing too much personal information online?
Avast Blog – 8.16.22 We talk a lot about the differences between digital natives and older generations, who came of age way before the internet. That’s because it really can’t be overemphasized: Growing up with access to so much knowledge and so many forms of communication has created very real generational differences — and they go way beyond knowing…
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Want to avoid the worst of the internet? Start with cyber hygiene
Avast Blog – 8.12.22 Nearly everyone is concerned about their security and privacy, both online and offline. Ever since personal computing became a thing, people have become increasingly better at using PCs to be more productive, better informed, or entertained. Source: Want to avoid the worst of the internet? Start with cyber hygiene
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Avast CISO Jaya Baloo discusses online safety for teachers and students
Avast Blog – 8.10.22 New shoes and new backpacks are flying off the shelves, and that can only mean one thing – it’s back-to-school time. First semester always begins with fresh faces, new gear, and an open-minded attitude, so there’s really no better time to introduce safety measures and smart cybersecurity procedures to the student…
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Back to school: Do you know your high schooler’s online fluency?
Avast Blog – 8.10.22 Just as you wouldn’t put your kid in a car at age 16 and say, “Drive, kid!” without ever talking to them about how to drive — and why speeding or driving intoxicated or looking at your phone while driving is dangerous — you can’t let a kid run around freely…
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How to safely make online friends
Avast Blog – 7.7.22 Over the past few years, classrooms have moved to kitchens and bedrooms and playgrounds have been replaced by online video games. The methods for making friends have forever been altered. Internet friendships are often more common than real-world relationships. And the future can only be forecasted as a complex mix of…
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Kids are forming hacking groups online. Here’s what to do about it.
Avast Blog – 6.28.22 When people hear the word “hacker,” they probably picture a man sitting alone in a dark room in front of a computer. He has a black screen with green computer code in front of him. Maybe he’s wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up. (He’s definitely wearing a hoodie with…
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How to defeat social engineering attacks
Avast Blog – 5.24.22 If you have heard of the process of social engineering, the ability of a hacker to trick you into divulging your private details, then you might have come across ethical hacker Rachel Tobac. She’s the CEO of SocialProof Security and board member of Women in Security and Privacy. I virtually attended one of her more…
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The biggest financial scams of 2022
Avast Blog – 5.23.22 The year is not even half over, but the FTC has already logged almost 500,000 fraud scams and over 300,000 cases of identity theft since January. According to the UN, an additional 782 million people have come online during the pandemic, raising the number of internet users globally from 4.1 billion to 4.9 billion. This increase…
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SSI and FIDO2: Different approaches for a passwordless world
Avast Blog – 5.20.22 At the beginning of May, Apple, Google, and Microsoft announced their commitment to a common password-less sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium. Source: SSI and FIDO2: Different approaches for a passwordless world