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FTC Slaps $16.5M Fine On Avast For Selling Users' Data To Over A Hundred Third Parties Without Consent (UPDATED)
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 4:41am | 804Read More...Avast, a prominent cybersecurity company, has been slapped with a $16.5 million fine by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for unlawfully selling user data. The company is also prohibited from selling user data for advertising and must delete all data obtained by its Jumpshot arm. What Happened:...
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Fintech Focus For August 16, 2021
Sunday, August 15, 2021 - 1:12pm | 2685Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “The way that I manage risk has changed materially. I try as often as I can to think about multi-decade holding periods for the things that we own. In the moment, it is hard, but then you figure out guardrails to stay in an infinite mindset. If I’m thinking over...
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KeyBanc Out Bullish On Avast, Highlights Multibillion-Dollar Addressable Cybersecurity Market
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 - 10:21am | 351Read More...London-listed Avast PLC is a consumer-focused cybersecurity software company that boasts 435 million users globally and is trading at an attractive valuation given the size of the market it addresses, according to KeyBanc Capital Markets. The Analyst Analyst Rob Owens initiated...
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Intel, Others Respond To Vault 7 CIA WikiLeaks With New Security Tools
Sunday, March 19, 2017 - 10:19pm | 771Read More...It's been a little over a week since WikiLeaks made its latest round of revelations; this time around, the bombshell was cyberhacking by the CIA. Even before the dust around the disclosures settle down, U.S. companies responded to the data breach, demonstrating their nimbleness and dynamism. The...
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Avoiding Windows XP Armageddon
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 10:43am | 588Read More...As Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) support for the Windows XP operating system ends Tuesday, depending on which experts you ask, the world faces either the end of computing as we know it or not much at all. The truth, as is often the case, probably lies in the middle. Although Microsoft will no longer...
