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Update: Privacy and security concerns surrounding TikTok

Launched in 2017, TikTok has been one of the fastest-growing apps worldwide. With more than 1.6 billion downloads in the first quarter of 2020, TikTok continues to attract more and more users. However, its success is overshadowed by privacy and security concerns that put not only the company’s image at risk but also its operations

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Malware Threat Report: Q3 2020 Statistics and Trends

Welcome to our Q3 2020 Malware Threat Report. Our previous malware threat report for Q2 ...

How to encrypt emails: A guide to Mailvelope

Regardless of whether it's confidential company information, sensitive health data intended for your doctor, or ...

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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Katana: a new variant of the Mirai botnet

Avira’s IoT research team has recently identified a new variant of the Mirai botnet. It ...

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 more ...

Children and technology: What do we know about the risks?

From celebrity children Youtubers to toddlers deftly scrolling through photos on mom’s iPhone – it ...

How to spot a bot on social media

Known in the early days of the internet as “software robots”, bots are software applications that perform ...

How to avoid scareware scams

While regular internet users today are aware of the variety of online scams and threats, ...

TA505 targets the Americas in a new campaign

In late September 2020, researchers at Avira Protection Labs identified a Powershell script originating from ...