Working from home in the United States: Challenges and cyberthreats
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on our personal and professional lives. People all over the world had to switch to working from home, and our digital lives changed fundamentally. To understand how life changed and how people shifted their daily routine to manage the blurring boundaries of private-work life, as well as
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5 steps and 1 click to secure your new home office
To securely and sanely manage your new home office, it’s time to ask yourself a question: Are you in the first or second group of home workers? With the coronavirus/COVID-19 virus raging outside, there are two basic groupings of people working from inside their home bunkers. The first group is of people whose employers have
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Working from home in the United States: Challenges and cyberthreats
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on our personal and professional lives....
How is the COVID-19 pandemic reshaping our digital habits? A look at the United States
Life as we know it has changed and we all need to do things differently. Spend...
Children and technology: What do we know about the risks?
From celebrity children Youtubers to toddlers deftly scrolling through photos on mom’s iPhone –...
How to spot a bot on social media
Known in the early days of the internet as “software robots”, bots are software applications that...
Tech policy and ad changes in response to US elections
Here’s a scary thought: In Avira’s recent Global Elections Survey, 37% of 2,000 respondents...
Data-driven election campaigns: What they are and how they affect your voting
It’s the run-up to the presidential elections in the United States. Unfortunately, if we...
Misinformation is a cybersecurity risk
With the pandemic raging and social unrest surging around the globe, wildly divergent platforms...
Which tech tools can protect your voter privacy?
With so many parties interested in messing with voters these days, it’s easy to...
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Cybersecurity threats in 2020: Insights from Avira’s Malware Threat Report
Avira’s Malware Threat Report for the first quarter of 2020 revealed an increase in phishing and spam campaigns, as well as Emotet-related attacks. Cybercriminals took advantage of the troubled global situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to spread malware in the form of trojans, worms, and file infectors. Cybersecurity threats in 2020 increased significantly as
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Finding out that a company you’ve done business with has been hacked can be unnerving to say the least. Unfortunately, dozens of companies, including LinkedIn, Target, Uber, Bank of America, and Home Depot have experienced data breaches in the past few years. A quick internet search brings up countless questions, concerns, and complaints about data
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