Category Archives: Avast News

Charles Walton joined Avast as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Identity in June 2021 to push the company forward in the digital identity space. He started off studying control theory in university and planned to work for an airpl… Continue reading Digital Identity Q&A With Charles Walton | Avast→

This just in — Avast Antivirus has been awarded the top score for AV-Comparatives’ 2021 Anti-Phishing Certification Test. Every year, AV-Comparatives publishes the results of their phishing protection test, which evaluate the protection provided … Continue reading AV-Comparatives Anti-Phishing Test | Avast→

Thirty years ago this week, Tim Berners-Lee published the first web page to the internet, kicking off a wave of excitement — and debate — about the potential for the world’s largest interconnected information system to open access to education, o… Continue reading 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web | Avast→

“I’ve always found the best way to get a kid to learn how to hack is to tell them to just never use the computer,” Dave Aitel confides to Jaya Baloo in Episode 8 of our podcast Avast Hacker Archives (AHA). Dave is speaking from experience. When Ja… Continue reading Avast Hacker Archives Episode 8 – Dave Aitel | Avast→

“Here’s how it works!” Dan Aykroyd energetically tells the SNL audience. “Catch a bass, remove the hook, and drop the bass – that’s the WHOLE bass – in the Bass-O-Matic 76!” As he says this in his best punchy announcer voice, he picks up a real fish an… Continue reading Avast Hacker Archives Episode 7 – Philip Zimmermann | Avast→

At the age of 12, Wendy Nather was living in Israel. Her father was a professor at the University of Tel Aviv, and when she complained to him one day that she was bored, his response launched her on the course that quickly became her life’s calling. Th… Continue reading Avast Hacker Archives Episode 6 – Wendy Nather | Avast→

Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, tech optimist, Avast Security Ambassador and an advocate both of AI and digital human rights, will soon be hosting a “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit. In addition to answering questions raised by Re… Continue reading Reddit AMA With Garry Kasparov | Avast→

It’s no coincidence that when our pandemic-stricken world went into lockdown mode in 2020, incidents of abuse via stalkerware spiked, especially in situations where the victimizer did not live with the victim. Then, as the lockdown began to be lifted i… Continue reading Avast Hacker Archives Episode 5 – Eva Galperin | Avast→

Garry Kasparov is worried about America. The Chess Grandmaster and Avast Ambassador grew up in the Soviet Union and has spent much of the 21st Century as a political activist pushing back against repressive regimes. And the segmentation of Americans in… Continue reading Garry on Lockdown — Episode 7→