covid19
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, ...
Contact Tracing COVID-19 Infections via Smartphone Apps
Google and Apple have announced a joint project to create a privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app. (Details, such as we have them, are here.) It's similar to the app being developed at ...
COVID-19 Phishing: Exploiting a Global Pandemic
It's sad to think criminals are hard at work taking advantage of the extraordinary stress the world's population is currently experiencing. But they are. New phishing scams exploiting anxiety about COVID-19 are ...
Surge in Online Shopping Drives Major Increase in Coronavirus-Themed Fraud Attempts
Attempts to defraud consumers are on the rise, as scammers exploit the surge in online activity during the COVID-19 lockdown. Merchants are starting to suffer dramatic increases in COVID-19-related phishing activities, with ...
Cybersecurity During COVID-19
Three weeks ago (could it possibly be that long already?), I wrote about the increased risks of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. One, employees are working from their home networks and ...
New York City Schools Ban Zoom over Security and Privacy Woes
The State of New York has decided to ban Zoom from city schools amid news of security and privacy concerns surrounding the popular videoconferencing software. “DOE staff and service providers should cease ...
COVID-19: China and Russia Disinformation and Shenanigans
As we sit here at the beginning of April, it is sometimes hard to remember that it was Nov. 17, 2019, when China discovered a virus emanating from a central fish and ...