Tag: covid-19

Information Security in the Time of Covid-19 – Moving to the Cloud as a Cost-Cutting Measure Does Not Lessen Compliance Obligations

Recurringly, organizations fail to ask themselves the most rudimentary questions before moving to cloud platforms, and they suffer as a result...

Is the future of information security and tech conferences virtual?

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes to our personal and work lives. Among the latter are the...

Beware of online coronavirus scams

Hackers have increased their activity during the current pandemic crisis. It’s more important than ever for you to be extremely cautious online. With the massive number of people working from home, hackers feel they have an opportunity to exploit the pandemic for illegal profit. The level of hacking activity has definitely risen in recent months [...]

Security considerations for working in a COVID-19 world

It is difficult to find a silver lining amongst a crisis such as the COVID-19 outbreak. However, as countless...

Twitter strives to control 5G-linked coronavirus conspiracy theories on the platform

As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on society, coronavirus conspiracy theorists are wreaking havoc on 5G cell towers by lighting them...

Facebook is adding a ‘hug’ reaction to show you care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Facebook is adding a new reaction to live alongside the Like button and the existing reactions: ‘Hug’

7 Ways Hackers and Scammers Are Exploiting Coronavirus Panic

You might have already read about various campaigns warning how threat actors are capitalizing on the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to infect your computers and mobile devices with malware or scam you out of your money. Unfortunately, to some extent, it's working, and that's because the attack surface is [...]

Open-source AI tool aims to help identify coronavirus infections

A tool that can show why deep-learning modules make the decisions they do, enabling users to correct the inputs that lead to wrong decisions, and fix the architecture or retrain the system to prevent the same mistakes in future.

Launching Oracle’s COVID-19 Therapeutic app: The back story

By Tony Baer (dbInsight) for Big on Data | April 10, 2020 -- 12:00 GMT (13:00 BST) | Topic: Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemic The input screen that patients see when using Oracle's COVID-19 therapeutic app   Source: Oracle Among the many mysteries of the coronavirus is finding out which medications and therapies [...]