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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 time at home. Redesign our living space to accommodate work. Meet our friends and family online. The COVID-19 pandemic made us rely on our devices even more than before. To understand how life changed and the impact of the pandemic on our digital habits, Avira surveyed

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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, ...

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 don’t ...

Misinformation is a cybersecurity threat

Misinformation is a cybersecurity risk

With the pandemic raging and social unrest surging around the globe, wildly divergent platforms on ...

5 tips to identify fake news and misinformation

Altering the information spread through mass media, whether intentionally (disinformation) or unintentionally (misinformation), is not a new practice. However, misinformation and disinformation have been fueled by digital technologies in the past decades, thanks to the rapid growth of digital media, online news outlets, and social networks. The spread of fake news online has become a major issue. Tech is catching up and new tools for identifying fake news are being developed. Besides, there are

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