How To Ensure Your Home Learning Environment Is Cyber Safe
As remote learning becomes more common among schools and universities, here’s how you can keep your tech safe.
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A Look Inside Bitdefender's VPN Service
VPNs are absolutely necessary if you want privacy online. We delve deep on the VPN provided by Bitdefender.
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How To Protect Your Tech While Working From Home
Do you work from home? Make sure you and your devices are protected by following these simple steps.
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Google: We're Blocking 18 Million COVID-19 Phishing Emails a Day
On a daily basis, the company is also blocking an additional 240 million COVID-19 spam messages from appearing in people's Gmail inboxes.
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Messaging App Signal Threatens to Dump US Market if Anti-Encryption Bill Passes
Signal is calling on its users to oppose the EARN IT Act, which it fears will be used to undermine end-to-end encryption, forcing it to leave the US market.
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Taiwan Tells Government Agencies to Stop Using Zoom
Following the advisory, Taiwan's education ministry told local schools to also stop using Zoom. The agency is now encouraging educators to consider Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, and Cisco Webex.
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To Stop Hijackings, Zoom Will Turn on the 'Waiting Room' Feature For All Users
Starting on Sunday, the company is also requiring passwords on everyone's previously scheduled meetings to help prevent unwanted guests from infiltrating the video conferencing sessions.
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Zoom's Encryption Keys Are Sometimes Being Sent to China, Report Finds
In end-to-end encryption, normally the key is generated and stored on your smartphone or laptop. However, Zoom will manage the keys over the company's servers, a few of which are based in China, according to Citizen Lab.
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Zoom: Rush of WFH Users Exposed Security, Privacy Flaws We Plan to Fix
Growing from 10 million to 200 million users in a matter of months caught Zoom off guard, so it's temporarily freezing development on new features to focus on security and privacy issues.
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Were You Zoom-Bombed? Video of It May Now Be on YouTube, TikTok for All to See
Zoom-bombers have been recording their exploits and uploading the footage to YouTube and TikTok. In some cases, the videos are a privacy issue because they show AA and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
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Amid Pandemic, Microsoft Alerts Dozens of Hospitals Vulnerable to Ransomware Threat
Microsoft said it warned 'several dozens of hospitals' about vulnerabilities in their networks that could be used to deliver ransomware to their IT systems.
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Another Marriott Breach Exposes Details of 5.2M Hotel Guests
This latest breach adds to the 383 million guests whose details were exposed by Marriott back in 2018.
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FBI: Watch Out for 'Zoom-Bombings' on Online Video Meeting Apps
The FBI's Boston field office issued the warning after hijackers infiltrated two school-held Zoom sessions to harass a teacher and display the Swastika sign.
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Phishing Attacks Increase 350 Percent Amid COVID-19 Quarantine
You're probably in quarantine because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that doesn't mean your online information is safe. Phishing schemes have increased drastically since the outbreak.
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Google: State-Sponsored Hackers Are Trying to Pose as Journalists in Phishing Attacks
'We’ve seen a rising number of attackers, including those from Iran and North Korea, impersonating news outlets or journalists,' Google said on Thursday.
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