Winter holidays are a glowing delight, filled with cozy warm drinks, great food, decorations, family traditions, and of course – presents. Families know the feeling of December creeping in, and the burst of joy filled with urgency that comes with it. People rush to shopping malls by the handfuls, making a day (or days) of purchasing gifts for their friends and loved ones. But the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the holiday shopping experience, migrating holiday shoppers from mall trip extravaganzas to multi-platform online shopping. Probably the last thing buyers are thinking about when deliberating between a blue bike or a green scooter is the plethora of cyber attackers just waiting for them to make one mistaken make one wrong click, and fall victim to a phishing scam that can drain all the money (and holiday joy) from your stocking.

2020 has been a crazy year for everyone – including higher education institutions. While the world scrambled to keep health care systems afloat AND hold on to flailing economies over the summer, universities and colleges dealt with a different challenge – taking an extremely social experience, the education system, and putting it online. There’s no doubt that online learning saves facility expenses and time, but it has made Higher Ed institutions – and their students and staff – much more vulnerable to cyber attacks. University systems and networks need to be accessible to students from home, and in a time when online study life and online personal life merge, students may very well be putting the institution’s systems at risk as well.

In recent months, the global COVID-19 epidemic has forced millions of employees to work from home. While some have experience working remotely in the past, for most working from home for months on end has been a first-time experience. Cyber attackers are at large exploiting this time of chaos and panic to deploy a variety of attacks, and with millions working from home, a plethora of additional vulnerabilities and attack options arise. In this article, we will recommend 10 tips for secure remote work from your home during COVID-19.

When security personnel think of email attacks, usually the first word that comes to mind is “phishing." While phishing is a very common (and sadly, very successful) attack vector, many threat actors take a different approach to gaining access to victims’ accounts. Breaching an email mailbox is a critical first step, creating a doorway to endless exploitation possibilities.

In this blog post, we will outline five different ways that cyber attackers can breach your email account and steal personal information.

With the Coronavirus death toll constantly on the rise, people are becoming more and more panicked. It seems that almost everyone these days is thirsty for any information they can get on how to avoid the deadly virus, creating a tremendous opportunity for cyber attackers to exploit these fears and steal personal information and credentials.