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The Avast Mobile Team recently published an updated version of Avast Anti-Theft. Our app helps you locate and recover your lost or stolen mobile devices and it enables you to locate, lock, wipe and even sound an alarm on your phones by using any mobile or desktop device.
There weren’t many hacks on this week’s episode of Mr. Robot, but we finally got some answers! We know why Tyrell hasn’t shown up yet this season and where Elliot has really been this season!
Linux flaw affects about 1.4 billion Android devicesThe newly discovered Linux flaw allows hackers to carry out attacks on Android users using a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Downgrade Attack. In layman’s terms – a hacker could spy on you and your data. In more technical terms, a cybercrook can potentially degrade, or negotiate a lower version of TLS, between the client and server.
The results of the July 2016 Whole Product Dynamic Real-World Protection Test from AV-Comparatives are in, and we’re excited to spread the word.
In describing its Real-World Protection Test, AV-Comparatives states the following on its website:
“Our Real-World Protection Test is currently the most comprehensive and complex test available, using a large number of test cases. This year, we are running this test under Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit SP1 with up-to-date third-party software (such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Java, etc.).“
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This week’s episode of Mr. Robot had an usual start, more unusual than usual. The episode begins with Elliot, Darlene and their parents in a 90s style sitcom. ALF makes an appearance, yes you read correctly, ALF, and he even runs over and kills Gideon! Gideon is, of course, not Gideon in this 90s episode, instead he is a cop who is looking for a family that has a person locked up in their trunk. Elliot’s family is the family that has someone locked up in their trunk — Tyrell! Vulture wrote a nice article explaining how this scene came to be and how this was Mr. Robot’s way of distracting Elliot from all of the pain he is in in real life.
The Avast Foundation is an integral part of Avast and exists thanks to the hard work and dedication of the company’s 600 employees. Many Avastians volunteer in various non-profit organizations and are interested in playing a part in making both their local communities and the world a better place.
The Avast Employee Fund gives Avast employees the opportunity to help and recommend support for any of the publicly beneficial organizations for which they volunteer or support. Upon the selection of an employee‘s proposal, The Avast Foundation gives them the opportunity to help decide how the allotted funding from the Foundation will be put to use.
Avast Threat Lab uses CyberCapture to detect unknown malwareOur Avast Threat Lab is Grand Central Station to malware. Somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million files come through the detection system every day. Nearly half of those are unknown files. That means that somewhere in the world, someone is targeted by cybercriminals. Avast Threat Lab analysts like Michal Salat, in the above picture, works to stop those attacks.
Finally! Elliot is back to his old ways, hacking and being a vigilante.
