Mozilla removes four Firefox extensions made by Avast and AVG after reports that they were harvesting user data and browsing histories
The four extensions, two from Avast and two from AVG, are still available on the Chrome Web Store. — Mozilla removed today four Firefox extensions …
Hackers breached the internal network of Avast likely aiming for another supply chain attack on CCleaner; Avast says it didn't find malicious changes to the app
again Robert Lemos / Dark Reading : Avast Foils Another CCleaner Attack Alex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com : Attacker hit VPN firm Avast through its VPN Seth Rosenblatt / The Parallax : SafeBreach dis...
Antivirus software firm AVG acquired by Avast Software for $1.3 billion
Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu :
Antivirus software firm AVG acquired by Avast Software for $1.3 billion
Antivirus software company AVG Technologies has been acquired by rival Avast Software for $1.3 billion. — Both companies were founded in the Czech Republic and expanded globally with AVG going publi...
Flawed Chrome extension forcibly installed by AVG antivirus software could have exposed browsing history and other personal data of 9M+ users, has been patched
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica :
Flawed Chrome extension forcibly installed by AVG antivirus software could have exposed browsing history and other personal data of 9M+ users
AVG's Chrome extension exposes personal data of 9 million users — Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability …
AVG updates privacy policy, allowing it to sell anonymized user data to third parties, but says it will let users opt out
AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers — Security firm AVG can sell search and browser history data to advertisers in order to “make money” …
Kaspersky CEO: False positives affected us too, Reuters report does not contain ‘a shred of evidence’
Reuters published a story today claiming security firm Kaspersky Lab tried to damage rivals (including Microsoft, AVG, and Avast) by tricking their antivirus software programs …