Collaborate Disseminate
In what feels like society’s longest three-month stretch in a generation, it has quickly become cliché to comment that the global pandemic has impacted nearly every part of our lives. In economic terms, the downstream effects are starting to come into… Continue reading Fighting Fraud Amid a Pandemic? Follow the Money
As the world becomes more digitally bound and workers adapt to new business models, our cyber habits should improve considerably. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case. The 2020 LastPass ‘Psychology of Passwords’ report has reveale… Continue reading 66 Percent of Consumers Recycle Their Account Passwords. Do You?
We believe we are less likely than others are to fall for phishing scams, thereby underestimating our own exposure to risk, a cybersecurity study has found. The research also reports that this occurs, in part, because we overlook data, or “base r… Continue reading Are you sure you would never fall for a phishing scam?
The device people use to communicate online – a smartphone, desktop, or tablet – can affect the extent to which they are willing to overshare intimate or personal information about themselves, according to University of Pennsylvania researc… Continue reading Is your smartphone pushing you to overshare?
People around the world are learning how to work from home and stay productive in response to COVID-19, Udemy reveals. As remote working becomes the new normal, the findings reveal significantly increased demand globally across every segment: 425% incr… Continue reading Online learning surges as people look for ways to be productive at home
While most people will say they are extremely concerned with their online privacy, previous experiments have shown that, in practice, users readily divulge privacy information online. A team of Penn State researchers identified a dozen subtle – b… Continue reading Why people talk a good game about privacy, but fail to follow up in real life?
Differences in cultural values have led some countries to tackle the spectre of cyberattacks with increased internet regulation, whilst others have taken a ‘hands-off’ approach to online security – a study shows. Internet users gravit… Continue reading Cybersecurity regulation is not one-size-fits-all
In advance of the peak shopping season, a study from PCI Pal shows that millions of Americans continue to over-indulge in risky behaviors – both online and on the phone, leaving themselves open to seasonal security scares. While 49% of Americans … Continue reading Risky behavior exposes consumers to seasonal security scares
Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, tilting the technology toward digital authoritarianism. As a result of these trends, global internet freedom declined for the ninth con… Continue reading Global internet freedom declines for the ninth consecutive year
Just over a quarter (26%) of people in EMEA would prefer their cybersecurity to be managed by AI rather than a human, an online study conducted by Palo Alto Networks and YouGov alongside Dr Jessica Barker reveals. Italy has the most confidence in relyi… Continue reading Are humans ready for AI to take control of digital security?