{"id":126092,"date":"2021-08-11T06:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/norton-and-avast-are-merging-into-an-8-billion-antivirus-empire"},"modified":"2021-08-11T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:22:39","slug":"norton-and-avast-are-merging-into-an-8-billion-antivirus-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/norton-and-avast-are-merging-into-an-8-billion-antivirus-empire","title":{"rendered":"Norton and Avast are merging into an $8 billion antivirus empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/norton-and-avast-are-merging-into-an-8-billion-antivirus-empire2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deal combines decades of cyber security experience.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Norton and Avast are merging in a big anti-virus deal. The combined companies will focus on consumer offerings for cyber security, just as ransomware is becoming a big issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deal combines decades of cyber security experience. Norton and Avast are merging in a big anti-virus deal. The combined companies will focus on consumer offerings for cyber security, just as ransomware is becoming a big issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}