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COVIDGuardian: A Guardian Angel for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

People around the globe have always been apprehensive about the implementation and usage of the COVID-19 contact tracing apps. They feared that cybercriminals could...

IoT Security Trends and Challenges in the Wake of COVID-19

Finally, we have arrived in the age of an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, with connected devices deployed in our homes, workplace, and public...

Cybersecurity Top 5 Lessons Learned from COVID-19

At last, I went to a grocery shop with enough precautions after using multiple online delivery services for weeks. And I found that most...

DDoS Attacks Intensify in 2020 — Driven in Part by COVID-19 and 5G

Cybercriminals had a busy year in 2020, with rapidly increasing numbers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) weapons, widespread botnet activity, and some of...

Protecting the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain from ‘Cold’-hearted Phishers

Recently, the world learned about a cyber-espionage attempt focused on the international vaccine supply chain. The threat was leveled as a precisely targeted phishing...

How Internet Scams Persist in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The more technology advances, the more sophisticated the methods that fraudsters employ to cheat people out of their hard-earned money. And it’s only gotten...