A large number of companies are rolling out mandatory work-from-home policies to help limit the risks posed by the coronavirus outbreak. But cybersecurity experts warn that those remote setups invite new hacking risks. This means that more personal devices, being used to handle and process business data are at the upmost risk.
There have been so many data breaches with all of our passwords for so many years now that there’s always a password that you can associate with an individual. So what hackers will try is password spraying which is just taking your username with your password and variations on a theme of your password and trying to brute force their way into your office systems.
Read more about it here: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/30/822687397/cybersecurity-lawyer-who-flagged-the-who-hack-warns-of-massive-remote-work-risks
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