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Israeli Gov’t Approves Phone-Tracking to Combat Coronavirus, Enforce Quarantine

UPDATED March 17 13:45 BST with statement from Israel's PM. The Israeli Government has authorised the use of mobile phone…

Avast CEO Shuts Down “Jumpshot” Programme, Apologises to Users

Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek has publicly apologised for the endpoint security firm's sale of user data via a subsidiary named…

Avast Hacked: Intruder Gained Domain Admin Privileges

Avast hacked in May. Intruder left almost no trace. Security firm ramps up security for its product build and release environments. Avast,…

NCSC Warns Over DNS Hijacking, As Frequency and Cost of Attacks Soar

The UK government's cybersecurity centre, the NSCS, has come out with a stark warning to organisations that they need to…

Tech Giants: We Won’t Help Gov’t Cyber Attacks

Microsoft has joined fellow tech giants Arm, Cisco, Facebook, Github, Nokia and 28 others to sign a joint Cybersecurity Tech…

Avast tackles aggressive GitHub cryptomining malware uploads

New research from Avast Threat Labs shows that cybercriminals are aggressively uploading cryptocurrency mining malware to leading software development platform…

Best free antivirus software

Cybersecurity is an issue that never goes away. Hacks are becoming more and more prominent and a growing concern for…