Events
U.S. Institute of Peace 2301 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037
Family Online Safety Institute will host its 2019 Annual Conference, entitled "2020 Vision: The Future of Online Safety." This event will convene leaders across industry, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector to discuss a wide spectrum of topics within the areas of best practice in technology policy, digital parenting, privacy, ethics, and artificial intelligence, among many more.
Leena Elias is VP of Product Delivery within Avast’s consumer business. Leena leads the implementation and delivery of Avast’s solutions to partners globally. She manages the Product Management, Project Management and Customer Success teams work with our partners day-to-day on applications that span parental controls, location, security and IoT.Leena Elias is an experienced technical leader with a track record of successfully delivering complex cross-functional programs. Ms. Elias’ broad working experience includes IT Consulting, Engineering Management, Client Services, Operations, and Customer Success. Prior to joining Avast, Leena was Head of Professional Services at Narvar, a SaaS platform for retail operations. Before joining Narvar, she was Director of Technical Services at Moovweb, a SaaS company focused on cloud-based mobile experience optimization, where she lead a global team of engineers to deliver post-sales technical services offerings including implementation, onboarding and ongoing support. Leena holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
It is evident that Ukrainian companies have not been spared when it comes to phishing attacks, and attackers are targeting local communication infrastructures, network providers, and other services.
A new type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack known as an amplification attack can increase damage by four billion times and stretch out the length of the attack to 14 hours.
In support of the Ukrainian people, Avast suspends operations in Russia.
As we move towards a more privacy-minded world, we must prepare for major platforms to resist the movement. And we must be prepared for the security, privacy, and business model challenges along the way.
A new report documents a wide variety of crypto crime techniques, combining old and new ways to manipulate markets.
While hacktivists likely believe that they are doing the right thing by contributing their skills to the side they support, at the very least they are committing crimes with these actions.
What can women who want to get into tech do to break into the field? Here are seven tips from two women who have been there.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked a number of hacktivist communities that have begun to develop tools to help their cause. Ensuring your security while using such tools is difficult to achieve, and by participating in these actions, you risk your privacy.
