Zoom strong-armed by US watchdog to beef up security after boasting of end-to-end encryption that didn’t exist
The video-conferencing giant will carry out an annual security assessment of its software and have its internal security program assessed by a third-party every two years. It also has to create a vulnerability management program, and add security safeguards, such as...
Millions of Hotel Guests Worldwide Caught Up in Mass Data Leak
Prestige Software’s “Cloud Hospitality” platform is used by hotels to integrate their reservation systems with online booking websites like Expedia and Booking.com. A misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket affects users and threatens travelers with identity...
Zoom Snooping: How Body Language Can Spill Your Password
Researchers found a way to read what people are typing during a video call (via Zoom, Microsoft Skype or Google Hangouts) by analysing shoulder movements. Since most users are typically doing other stuff while on video calls and a lot of those tasks involve typing, a...
Cybersecurity skills to develop while working from home
Cybersecurity, Computer security, or Information Technology Security (IT security) refers to the protection of computer systems, networks, servers, devices, or programs from attacks, hardware or software damage, or theft of electronic data. Also, they contain...
How to secure your home network?
Since the COVID pandemic requires us to work from home, it’s essential to make sure that we have a proper home office where we can work without any worries. There will always be problems when it comes to securing our home network and making sure that there are no data...
Should I use a VPN when working from home?
The COVID Pandemic brought in a new normal for us, which means staying home, to protect ourselves and the ones we love from this virus. We can still work from home, but that means dealing with various security issues.
Spotting COVID-19 online scams
The COVID-19 pandemic created new opportunities for bad actors to trick users into revealing their personal information or clicking on malicious links or attachments, unwittingly downloading malware to their computers. These phishing attacks and scams “use both fear...
