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While the details of a second U.S. “economic impact payment” from the government to victims of pandemic-related hardships have yet to be finalized in Congress – including the decision on whether or not there will even be a second disbursal – a text sca… Continue reading Text Scam Lies About U.S. Stimulus Check | Avast
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.
The… Continue reading Apple fixes numerous zero-day iOS flaws
You wouldn’t think an attack method that was first found more than 20 years ago would be at the top of anyone’s list of popular current attacks. But that is the case for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), a method that was first discovered by Microsoft engine… Continue reading Understanding Cross-Site Scripting Attacks | Avast
Delivering on its promise to do better after it was criticized this past April for using substandard encryption, Zoom announced on Tuesday that free end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is now available to all users for the next 30 days as a technical preview,… Continue reading Zoom Begins Using End-to-End Encryption | Avast
We’re less than a week away from the 2020 U.S. election, and there has been news of a ransomware attack in northern Georgia. The attack hit a network that supports the Hall County government infrastructure and includes election and telephone systems. I… Continue reading Final Elections Update | Avast
Following the discovery of adware apps in June and a report from a 12-year-old Czech girl in September, the team at Avast has uncovered another set of malicious apps in the Google Play Store.
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TrickBot, a malware network that is often described as one of the world’s largest with at least a million PCs, is once again in the news. Earlier this month, the botnet was the focus of two independent efforts to take it down: from Microsoft and from t… Continue reading Trickbot Botnet Update | Avast
When we talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), we’re usually talking about “smart” home appliances. Fridges. Coffeemakers. Virtual assistants. But there’s another category of device that is also increasingly connected to the internet: sex toys. And, … Continue reading IoT Sex Toy Security Flaw | Avast
Facebook posted in its Newsroom last week that it was preparing for the predicted chaos of the U.S. presidential election by taking certain steps and changing some of its rules, including a moratorium on political ads post-election.
The post Facebook t… Continue reading Facebook to Stop Political Ads Post-Election | Avast
It’s time for another update on election security as we draw closer to the actual November date. Our previous election blogs can be found here:
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