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By Emma McGowan
Welcome to the most prestigious event in the world of cyber trickery: the annual Avast Phishing Awards! Join us as we unveil the most noteworthy, side-eye-inducing, and downright dubious email headlines that made this such a year to remember.
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By Emma McGowan
Some apps are plain greedy—like a stranger you invite for a meal who insists on ordering everything expensive on the menu. Except instead of a rib eye, pasta, and chocolate soufflé, it’s your data they’re collecting. Here’s what you can do to set some boundaries and reclaim your privacy in 2025.
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By Nyrmah J. Reina
Shein hauls have taken social media feeds by storm, but is the website as safe as it’s stylish?
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By Nyrmah J. Reina
Before you prove your humanity to a pop up, make sure you’re not accidentally downloading malware.
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By Branislav Kramar
We kicked off the holiday shopping season with expectations of sales, but beware: a new wave of fake e-shops is spreading on the internet.
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By Avast
Report Finds 614% Increase in Scams Where Cybercriminals Go After People's Desire to Learn about Technology and Problem-Solve, Supporting a Surge in Data Theft.
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By Nyrmah J. Reina
Adware continues to be the most widespread on-device malware, with new variants popping up in the PlayStore and older ones picking up steam.
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By Nyrmah J. Reina
Our experts at Gen observed a 100% increase of ransomware activity quarter over quarter.
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By Avast
Holiday adventures coming up? Solo travel expert Sarah has the ultimate tips to make your trip smooth. @sarahtoyin.
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By Avast
What you do online should be your business and your business alone. In today’s digital world, unfortunately, a lot of what you do is tracked by advertisers and hackers. With Avast Secure Browser, you can browse more privately and securely. We help prevent advertisers from tracking you, and collecting your personal data, offering a range of blocking options. Select from Basic, Balanced, or Strict Blocking to customize your level of privacy. Plus, our Password Manager ensures the keys to your digital identity stay secure.
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By Avast
Short video demonstrating media vault features that use foreground services (e.g. download something into the vault, encrypt some local file, decrypt some vault file...)
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By Avast
Europe’s proposed eIDAS 2.0 regulation and the EU Digital Identity Wallet Initiative share a mission very close to our hearts at Avast — to enable secure, private, and portable digital identity for all. In this webinar, we invited a panel of private and public sector leaders to provide an update on the latest news and progress around the regulation. We covered the recent amendments, the technology that makes it possible, the role of qualified trust service providers (QTSPs), and the process for getting the legislation approved and written into law.
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By Avast
Listen to Garry Kasparov talk with Avast Chief Information Security Officer Jaya Baloo on how private-sector cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies will shape the future of privacy.
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By Avast
Renowned celebrity baker, Prue Leith, is helping to educate the nation on digital cookies as research shows that over a third of Brits (35%) don’t know what they actually are or what they do. The research, commissioned by Avast, revealed more than four in five (85%) of UK adults have accepted cookies on a website without reading any of the policies or making any changes, yet nearly seven in ten (68%) agree they could be risking their online privacy by doing so.
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By Avast
Ninety years old, a widow, and well into enjoying life with her family and friends, Phyllis Weisberg never thought she'd be a victim of a tech support scam. Phyllis thought she was receiving help, but instead was defrauded of $20,000 when cybercriminals withdrew the money from her bank account.
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By Avast
Avast security ambassador, tech optimist and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov joins Ondrej Vlcek, CEO of Avast, to take us on a journey through the evolution of the internet, explaining how to unlock our current digital freedoms at a time when our rights and privacy are being endangered.
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By Avast
Here's everything you need to know about Avast, it's products, and why security and privacy are now more important than ever.
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