Increase Threats : Working from home During #COVID19
If there is one thing we can count on, it is that cyber-criminals will always try to capitalize on any significant events happening in the world. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 outbreak is no exception to the rule. We are already seeing a huge number of scams and social engineering attacks – from email-based phishing to phone calls, text messages and social media – that are taking advantage of the massive changes in everyone’s daily lives, and the confusion and anxiety being felt throughout society worldwide. The current situation is just about the perfect environment for the bad guys to trick people working from home for the first time or school students – many as young as four or five – who are now using eLearning for the first time. None of us have all the security technology protecting us at home that we normally would at work or even at school. Remote work is not a new concept, and we are lucky at this time that the technologies exist to enable such comprehensive communica...