Work-from-Home Security Advice

SANS has made freely available its "Work-from-Home Awareness Kit." When I think about how COVID-19’s security measures are affecting organizational networks, I see several interrelated problems: One, employees are working from their home networks and sometimes from their home computers. These systems are more likely to be out of date, unpatched, and unprotected. They are more vulnerable to attack simply… Continue reading Work-from-Home Security Advice

Study finds COVID-19 spread in China fueled by “stealth transmission”

A new study published in the journal Science has tracked the spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV2, across China in January concluding 86 percent of early infections were undocumented. The researchers suggest a “radical increase” in identification… Continue reading Study finds COVID-19 spread in China fueled by “stealth transmission”

Study affirms average Covid-19 incubation period is 5 days

A new study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is affirming early estimates suggesting 5.1 days is the average incubation period for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbein… Continue reading Study affirms average Covid-19 incubation period is 5 days

Security of Health Information

The world is racing to contain the new COVID-19 virus that is spreading around the globe with alarming speed. Right now, pandemic disease experts at the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other… Continue reading Security of Health Information

Security of Health Information

The world is racing to contain the new COVID-19 virus that is spreading around the globe with alarming speed. Right now, pandemic disease experts at the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other public-health agencies are gathering information to learn how and where the virus is spreading. To do so, they are… Continue reading Security of Health Information

Coronavirus deaths cross 3,000 as outbreak enters “uncharted territory”

As global confirmed Covid-19 cases cross 90,000, with more than 3,000 fatalities, the World Health Organization’s Director-General says the world is now in “unchartered territory” but the virus can still potentially be contained.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Coronavirus deaths cross 3,000 as outbreak enters “uncharted territory”

Report claims two-thirds of global coronavirus cases have gone undetected

A new report from a WHO infectious disease modeling team based at Imperial College London is estimating about two-thirds of Covid-19 cases worldwide have gone undetected. The analysis suggests the global spread of the novel coronavirus is significantly… Continue reading Report claims two-thirds of global coronavirus cases have gone undetected

China releases massive novel coronavirus study covering 44,000 cases

A newly published study from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) is offering a massive epidemiological insight into the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. The paper examines more than 44,000 confirmed patients, finding over 80… Continue reading China releases massive novel coronavirus study covering 44,000 cases

WHO finally names new coronavirus Covid-19, as death toll crosses 1000

The novel coronavirus spreading across the globe now has an official name. The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed today it has labeled the virus Covid-19 as the situation continues to spread, with over 43,000 cases currently confirmed and over 1,… Continue reading WHO finally names new coronavirus Covid-19, as death toll crosses 1000