updated: Mar 05 2021, 14:00 ist
For the past few years, there has been a steady increase in users migrating to smartphones, as it gets services such as transfer of money, hail cabs, food delivered in quick time. But, the Covid-19 outbreak in early 2020 has fast-tracked the adoption of the digital lifestyle.
This apparently attracts bad actors to prey on naive users. While we advise the latter to be cautious, it is also imperative for app developers to be responsible for securing the user-data they store in either on their own cloud storage or third-party service providers such as Microsoft Azure, Google, and Amazon Web Services, among others.
Launched in October, Google Workspace is an enterprise suite for applications including Gmail, Meet, Drive, and Sheets, software that can be useful for businesses currently adopting work from home or hybrid workplace models.
A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) was recently published by Dutch data protection authorities outlining comparisons between data handling in Google Workspace.
The DPIA included ten original risk factors to government agencies adopting Google Workspace, citing issues including a lack of transparency concerning the purposes behind processing both customer and diagnostic data; potential legal gray areas surrounding both the tech giant and government bodies acting as data controllers or processors, privacy-unfriendly default settings, and potential spill-overs between one-account users in personal and enterprise settings.
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DDoS attacks cool off in Q4 as cyberattackers shift focus to cryptocurrency: Report
February 20, 2021
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Result of people spending more time online amid the lockdown; attacks on educational institutions, online gaming increased
The number of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks increased by 10 per cent in Q4 2020 compared to Q4 2019, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.
In DDoS attacks, the hackers attempt to deny access to the rightful customers, impacting transactions. They are meant to hinder a particular service for genuine users.
Hackers send a large number of requests to the target websites, far exceeding their capacity, impairing their ability to function normally.
“This drop can be connected to the growing interest in cryptocurrency mining,” Kaspersky said.