KPMG – 2021 CEO Outlook Pulse Survey
“Among the key trends, cyber security risk emerged as the number one risk, rising dramatically from fifth place in August 2020.”
Securityboulevard – Online Ed is the New Corporate Threat Vector
“Schools are popular targets because they often lack the resources and personnel to focus on strengthening cybersecurity; educational institutions also tend to use older and outdated systems for which patching is difficult.”
Nakedsecurity – Too slow! Booking.com fined for not reporting data breach fast enough
“The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) – the country’s data protection regulator – has fined online travel and hotel booking company Booking.com almost half a million Euros over a data breach.”
De Tijd – Criminelen maakten 34 miljoen buit via phishing
“Oplichters gingen vorig jaar met 34 miljoen euro aan de haal door bankgegevens van hun slachtoffers te ontfutselen via valse mails en berichten. De crisis biedt criminelen nieuwe kansen om mensen te misleiden.”
AGConnect – Kabinet acht Google niet veilig genoeg voor onderwijswereld
“Het kabinet heeft contact gelegd met de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) en met de Europese Commissie omdat producten van Google die scholen gebruiken niet veilig genoeg blijken.”
TechRepublic – World Economic Forum calls cybersecurity one of the “key threats of the next decade”
“But the latest report comes at a time when multiple cyberattacks every day are commonplace. Hospitals and schools now have to be prepared to respond to crippling ransomware attacks. “
SecurityBrief – Too much data on your devices? You may be a digital hoarder
“Is your hard drive full of emails, photos, documents, or media files that you haven’t looked at in years? There’s a good chance you’re a digital hoarder. We all know what hoarding of physical goods can become a huge problem, but research from the UK’s Northumbria University, Newcastle, suggests that digital hoarding can actually be […]
Politico – ‘Massively disruptive’ cyber crisis engulfs multiple agencies
“This is probably going to be one of the most consequential cyberattacks in U.S. history,”
ZDNET – The worst passwords of 2020 show we are just as lazy about security as ever
“Can’t we do any better than “123456”?”
Cuberscoop.com – Zero-day flaw found in Zoom for Windows 7
“A previously unknown flaw in the videoconferencing software Zoom could allow a hacker to remotely commandeer computers running old versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, security researchers said Thursday.”