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Avast forum hacked, 400 000 accounts affected
In Cyber Crime
Avast announced today on it’s blog that the avast forum was hacked. The forum suffered a serious security breach and 0.2% of it’s 200 millions customer accounts were affected. Near 400 000 avast accounts were affected by this cyber attack. In this way the user nicknames, user
Security Software Company Avast Gets New Investment, Now Valued at $1B
In Antivirus
Avast, one of the biggest PC and Mobile security software companies announced a major investment from CVC Capital Partners. This investment of an unspecified amount values Avast at $1 billion. According to Opswat‘s Antivirus market Share Report for January 2014, Avast follows Microsoft in the top market