One in every nine business PCs around the world is at risk of infection from malware at any time, according to new research by Avast. Pakistan, Vietnam and China topped the list of riskiest places to be a business with more than a one in three chance of infection. The United States, the Netherlands and Ireland recorded the lowest business risk ratio globally; however, each still had a one in eleven chance of infection.

Avast has announced the launch of Avast Business Secure Web Gateway - according to the company it will be the first enterprise-class secure web gateway designed for the needs of small to medium businesses (SMBs). Today’s SMBs need layered, turnkey security solutions that can fully protect their business from cyber threats without the need for extensive internal resources.

New research from Avast has found more than 49,000 Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) servers publicly visible on the internet due to a misconfigured MQTT protocol. This includes more than 32,000 servers with no password protection, putting them at risk of leaking data.