If you’re an IT or cybersecurity professional, you’ve been very busy over these last few months dealing with a gigantic jump in remote work and the increasing security challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Almost overnight, IT and security staff had to figure out how to help the entire office work from home and […]
Zoom has taken great lengths to assure us that the company is doing everything it can to boost the security of its popular videoconferencing and collaboration platform, including embarking on a 90-day plan to strengthen its safety and introducing new security features. The company just took another big step by acquiring Keybase, makers of a […]
According to a new survey, only half of cybersecurity professionals say they’re ready to detect and respond to the increasing rate of cyber attacks targeting vulnerable organizations during the COVID-19 crisis. The data comes from global IT association ISACA, which surveyed more than 3,700 technology professionals about how the coronavirus is affecting the IT industry. […]
Hackers are finding all sorts of ways to compromise our systems while we work remotely, and much of that activity is coming through applications currently in demand, like videoconferencing and collaboration platforms. Zoom has become one of the more popular platforms and hackers are taking notice — including leveraging Zoom installers to spread a cryptocurrency […]
Organizations’ rush to build up remote work programs and deploy cloud-based collaboration solutions may have jeopardized their cybersecurity, says a new alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In an advisory through the department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the government warns that quick rollouts of cloud services like Microsoft 365 – with applications like […]
According to research on the security features of videoconferencing and video chat solutions, the vast majority of popular platforms are secure. This research on videoconferencing security comes from Mozilla, producers of popular internet browser Firefox, which found that 12 of 15 products tested meet Mozilla’s Minimum Security Standards. Those that are up to snuff include […]
Microsoft says it has resolved a security problem in Microsoft Teams in which an attacker could have taken over user accounts through a .GIF file. Researchers from cybersecurity software firm CyberArk found that attackers could have used a malicious .GIF file to scrape a user’s data and ultimately take over an organization’s entire roster of […]
Zoom is working to regain public trust as it releases Zoom 5.0, a new version of the popular videoconferencing app that includes security upgrades and new data options. The general availability of Zoom 5.0 is a key milestone in the company’s 90-day plan to address security and transparency lapses with the platform after it came […]
Videoconferencing platform Zoom is continuing to roll out security upgrades, the most recent being new data routing options that give paid customers the ability to customer their data center settings. This new feature began April 18 and allows users with paid subscriptions to customer which data center regions their account can use for its real-time […]
A new joint advisory from U.K. and U.S. cybersecurity officials warns that cyber criminals are targeting individuals and organizations with a range of hacking tools like ransomware and malware. With the U.S. and much of Europe under government-imposed lockdowns due to COVID-19, many employees are working from home to help prevent the spread of the […]
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