covid19
Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier
Holiday shoppers are overcoming worries and restrictions and easily adapting to new shopping norms as the COVID-19 pandemic has invaded our lives and made us overwhelmingly dependent on online and mobile activity ...
Cyberattacks Evolve as the Hospitality and Travel Industry Adapts
While the world fights against the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals are out in full force with a multitude of scams designed to take advantage of the confusion and panic. COVID-19 has -- by ...
The Security Value of Inefficiency
For decades, we have prized efficiency in our economy. We strive for it. We reward it. In normal times, that's a good thing. Running just at the margins is efficient. A single ...
M00nD3v, HawkEye threat actor, sells malware after COVID-19 diagnosis
Key Points The information-stealing malware dubbed M00nD3v Logger was recently auctioned off on Hack Forums, together with HakwEye Reborn. The threat actor – operating under the alias “M00nD3v” – states that they ...
COVID-19 Risks of Flying
I fly a lot. Over the past five years, my average speed has been 32 miles an hour. That all changed mid-March. It's been 105 days since I've been on an airplane ...
Criminals and the Normalization of Masks
I was wondering about this: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked bandits held up banks now allow them ...
Sounding the Pharma Alarma: An overview of the pharmaceutical threat landscape
The whole world is fighting the spread of COVID-19 and working to return to the lives we had before. Pharmaceutical and medical research teams in different countries are busy searching for a ...
Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet ...
New Research Shows 20% Spike in Fraud as Digital Behavior Shifts Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
New data showing the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on online fraud in the first quarter of 2020 shows that 26.5% of all transactions were fraud and abuse attempts, which is a ...
Automatic Instacart Bots
Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from Instacart as normal. Once that was done, ...

