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China Cybersecurity Week and International Anti Virus Conference
The sixth China Cybersecurity Week was launched on Monday 16 September in Tianjin. It is an annual week-long campaign that promotes national awareness on cybersecurity. After the opening ceremony, the first event was the third International Anti Virus Conference, featuring Chinese and International malware experts, including AVAR Chairman, Allan Dyer. Opening Ceremony of China Cybersecurity Week Mr. Huang Kinming, Minister
AV-Comparatives Identifies Vulnerability On MacOS
AV-Comparatives found a flaw in a macOS security feature that allowed unidentified apps to run (bypassing Gatekeeper checks) In spring of 2019, AV-Comparatives ran a team-building event, in which their research team was asked to find security bugs on macOS. This was actually planned as a nice afternoon with co-operative activities and some pizza, but it happened that they found
FIRST AVAR CEO
Recently, AVAR management decided to appoint a new CEO and has declared Mr. J Kesavardhanan, Founder and CTO of K7 Computing Pvt. Ltd., India, as the first CEO of AVAR.
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AVAR (Association of anti Virus Asia Researchers) was formed in June, 1998. AVAR's mission is to prevent the spread of and damage caused by malicious software, and to develop cooperative relationships among anti-malware experts in Asia. We are an independent and not-for-profit organization which is based in the Asia-Pacific region."