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Small business security starts with privacy
Q&A With Siobhan MacDermott Guest blogger Adrian Bridgwater interviews AVG Chief Policy Officer Siobhan MacDermott about her new paper Cyberwar: How to Harden Your Small to Medium Business and the...
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What “Be Yourself” Means to the AVG Community Hall of Famers
Here at AVG, we want to make sure that all of your devices are well protected and blazing fast, so you can focus on being yourself, rather than worrying about online threats. In the past few weeks...
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Small Biz Technologies that Live Up to the Hype
Small businesses like mine are inundated with new technologies that will “transform our lives.” The media enjoys playing up the latest and greatest thing. But, long term, do these things really work?...
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Post mortem of Black Hat 2013 Conference Part Three
Machine Learning Machine Learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, concerns the construction and study of systems that can learn from data. For example, a Machine Learning system could be trained...
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The future of mobile and the growing need for security
When we look at the future of the mobile phone industry, there is one undeniable trend: phones are getting smarter. The arrival of Android® has bust open the price restrictions for smartphones and they...
View ArticleAVG 2014 New York launch video and gallery
If you missed the last few hectic days at AVG, you might be unaware that we have just launched our new product range for 2014. For those who weren’t at the global launch in New York and didn’t follow...
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Examples of fake AVG Android Apps
Our mobile security research team has found at least 33 applications that contain aggressive advertising components in the official Google PlayTM store. The developers of these applications choose to...
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Seattle-bound for Pii2013
On September 17th, the world’s leading privacy and security minds will descend on the Bell Harbor International Conference Center for the fourth annual Privacy Identity Innovation (Pii) 2013...
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Analyzing an Android WebView exploit
There’s a vulnerability that affects WebView control in AndroidTM applications installed on Android devices running versions older than 4.2. This vulnerability makes a large number of Android...
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Privacy is the new digital issue of our time
AVG held an event in London on Wednesday to mark the launch of AVG 2014, but as well as celebrating its latest suite of products, part of the event was devoted to discussing one of the hottest...
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Fake Blackberry apps appear on Google Play Store
Throughout late September, we have noticed unofficial BlackBerry® messenger (BBM) applications being uploaded to the Google Play store and downloaded by millions of users. They were then later removed...
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iOS 7 Turns On Location Tracking By Default
The online world is buzzing about iOS 7TM, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, but most of the talk revolves around the new bells and whistles it brings but not about a potentially unexpected new...
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AVG invests in tech startups with Startupbootcamp
AVG is pleased to announce that it has agreed to participate in the Startupbootcamp initiative which helps startup companies with investment and expertise to help their businesses get off the ground....
View ArticleWebsite issue, Tuesday 8 October
As a result of the AVG domain name system (DNS) registrar being compromised through provider Network Solutions, AVG customers visiting the website did experience a delay in service which has now been...
View ArticleThe rise of the iTod – should you be worried?
Parents of toddlers will be well aware of the valuable downtime afforded by handing their tablet to their little one to play with. It’s perhaps unsurprising then that we have seen the rise of the...
View ArticleProtecting against CryptoLocker ransomware
AVG users should beware of the CryptoLocker virus that recently came to light in early September. CryptoLocker is a version of ransom malware that spreads via phishing emails containing infected...
View ArticlePrivacy matters to business – and this time it’s personal
Did you see Mike Foreman’s recent HuffPo piece about small business privacy concerns? In it he reveals that 87% of small businesses in the UK experienced a security breach last year and that 41% of...
View ArticleAVG reports third quarter financial results for 2013
AVG Technologies recently reported its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013. Revenue for the third quarter of 2013 was $100.1 million, compared with $95.3 million in the third quarter...
View ArticleFacebook warns some users to change passwords following Adobe breach
Facebook users who share the same online password across both their Adobe and Facebook accounts will have to pass additional security to regain access to the social network. Adobe accounts were...
View ArticleImportant message as AVG for Android passes 100 million downloads
Earlier this week it was announced that AVG for AndroidTM has passed the significant milestone of 100 million downloads. While this is great news for AVG, and an indication that AVG AntiVirus for...
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