COVID-19 pandemic-driven shift to home-working carries risks: United Nations
Issues facing home workers and their employers need greater attention, including better safeguards and more awareness of the rights and risks involved, the UN s International Labour Organization has said. AFP January 14, 2021 / 11:36 AM IST
File image: A woman works in a house while workers are forced to work from home and demand payback for extra home office costs during the coronavirus pandemic in Sassenheim, Netherlands in October 2020. (Image: Reuters/Eva Plevier)
The shift to home-working triggered by the coronavirus pandemic looks set to endure long-term, making it vital to protect employees rights and avoid blurred lines between on-the-clock hours and personal time, the United Nations said on January 13.
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A vulnerability in a GitHub repository belonging to the United Nations Environment Program exposed over 100,000 employee records, including personally identifiable information, contact details and other sensitive data, according to a group of independent security researchers.
UNEP is responsible for coordinating the U.N. s environmental activities. Sakura Samurai, a new group of ethical hackers, notes in its report the vulnerabilities stemmed from an endpoint that exposed the GitHub repository s credentials. The credentials gave us the ability to download the GitHub repositories, identifying a ton of user credentials and [personally identifiable information]. In total, we identified over [100,000] private employee records, says John Jackson, one of the security researchers in the group.
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