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Protecting employee COVID-19 health data: What CISOs need to know

Issued by: CSO

Businesses re-opening in the wake of COVID are faced with keeping track of who in the company is healthy, who is sick, and who needs to isolate. A new International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) study shows that 60% of employers are keeping records of employees diagnosed with COVID-19. These new sensitive datasets come at…

Network Security

What’s next? CISOs weigh in on COVID’s long-term effects on security

Issued by: CSO

As lockdowns ease, CISOs are looking ahead at how their teams operate and how they protect employees and assets. The most likely change is permanently supporting more work-at-home employees. According to a report released in April by (ISC)2, 96% of organizations had moved at least some of their staff to remote work, with nearly half…

Network Security

Security threats associated with shadow IT

Issued by: Help Net Security

As cyber threats and remote working challenges linked to COVID-19 continue to rise, IT teams are increasingly pressured to keep organizations’ security posture intact. When it comes to remote working, one of the major issues facing enterprises is shadow IT. End users eager to adopt the newest cloud applications to support their remote work are…

Malware & Threats

4 tips for protecting users from COVID-19-targeted attacks

Issued by: CSO

Attackers are using this time of crisis to go after victims with targeted campaigns. The biggest threats are phishing attacks related to COVID-19. Attackers are also setting up COVID-19-related domain names and enticing people to click on them. Anomali recently released a report that identified at least 15 distinct COVID-19-related campaigns associated with 11 threat…

Vulnerabilities

7 ways to make your Zoom meetings safer

Issued by: CSO

Zoom was a popular online conferencing application before COVID-19 infected the world, but the pandemic drove usage of the service to astronomical levels. Before the virus spread, the platform garnered about 10 million meeting participants a day. By March, that number was 200 million a day. “[W]e did not design the product with the foresight…

Vulnerabilities

Serious Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome, Firefox

Issued by: Security Week

Google included a total of 32 security fixes in Chrome 81, which was finally promoted to the stable channel, after the current COVID-19 pandemic forced the Internet giant to delay stable releases and roll back some of the recently introduced protections in Chrome. Twenty-three of the patches fix vulnerabilities reported by external security researchers, including…

Mobile Security

Security, Privacy Issues Found in Government COVID-19 Mobile Apps

Issued by: Security Week

Governments worldwide have released COVID-19 mobile apps to provide citizens with useful information and, in some cases, to track individuals in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak. An analysis of dozens of nation and government-sponsored mobile applications for Android released to help with the current COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the existence of privacy risks,…

Malware & Threats

Phishers Try ‘Text Direction Deception’ Technique to Bypass Email Filters

Issued by: Dark Reading

Scammers can be pretty innovative when it comes to finding new ways to sneak phishing messages past secure email gateways and other filtering mechanisms. One example is “text direction deception,” a tactic where an attacker forces an HTML rendering engine to correctly display text that has been deliberately entered backward in the code — for…

Network Security

Free security resources for work-from-home employees during the COVID-19 crisis

Issued by: CSO

As the world “shelters in place” amid the COVID-19 crisis, some tech companies are stepping up and offering their products and services free of charge for a limited time. These offers will help organizations set up and protect remote employees faster. In some cases, vendors are also offering support services to help companies through the…

Network Security

8 key security considerations for protecting remote workers

Issued by: CSO

Your boss just called and all your employees are mandated to work from home for the next two to three weeks due to the potential COVID-19 pandemic. What could go wrong? What risks are you now bringing to the firm? These are the actions should you take immediately to ensure you can allow your workforce…