Collaborate Disseminate
The need for greater oversight and accountability in our rapidly expanding digital world has acquired a relatively new angle thanks to globalization and geopolitics. In the rush to create market efficiencies, we usually don’t know or care where o… Continue reading Garry Kasparov on Geopolitical Cybersecurity Coming Home | Avast
Smart technology and the internet of things (we’ll call it IoT for business, and smart devices for the home) is developing fast, often with little or no built-in security. At home, seduced by the attraction of new technology, we buy and use these… Continue reading How Vulnerable is the Internet of Things | Avast
What does “social engineering” mean?
The term “social engineering” may sound arcane and intimidating, and in some ways, it is. But most of us have encountered some form of social engineering many times — on the internet, i… Continue reading Social Engineering Hacks the Way You Think | Avast
President Trump’s constant mislabeling of mainstream news reports he doesn’t appreciate as “fake news” has done much to muddle the accurate definition of this profound global force – and obscure the societal damage this ri… Continue reading Digital Disinformation Runs Rampant | Avast
Malvertising is rearing its ugly head – yet again.
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There are certain things we as consumers have come to do intuitively: brushing our teeth in the morning; looking both ways before crossing a city street; buckling up when we get into a car.
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Davos 2019, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, took place in January in its namesake city of Switzerland. Unsurprisingly, AI emerged as one of the leading topics of discussion (with 40 sessions dedicated to it, second only to US-China trad… Continue reading Who Puts the Ethics in AI? | Avast
My respect deepened for Satya Nadella after Microsoft’s erudite CEO recently expressed his strong views about the need for clear societal parameters governing the rising commercialization of facial recognition systems.
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When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg infamously declared that privacy “is no longer a social norm” in 2010, he was merely parroting a corporate imperative that Google had long since established. That same year, then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt… Continue reading It’s Time for a New Privacy Code of Conduct | Avast
At the beginning of January 2019, a major U.S. security firm published the results of a survey on gamers and security. It was a bit disappointing. It found that three-quarters of gamers worry about the security of gaming in the future; 55% of gamers re… Continue reading Cybersecurity Risks All Gamers Should Know | Avast