{"id":65237,"date":"2020-04-14T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=65237"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:10","slug":"mauro-working-from-home-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-creates-new-cybersecurity-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/04\/mauro-working-from-home-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-creates-new-cybersecurity-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"MAURO: Working from home during the coronavirus pandemic creates new cybersecurity threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Mauro, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, wrote a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/working-from-home-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-creates-new-cybersecurity-threats-134954?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2010%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2010%202020+CID_40784e28751cab7cf57d154747c8b324&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Working%20from%20home%20during%20the%20coronavirus%20pandemic%20creates%20new%20cybersecurity%20threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about an increase in technological vulnerabilities for employees now working from home.<\/p>\n<p>Mauro writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCOVID-19 has changed nearly every aspect of our daily lives, including how we shop, socialize, exercise and work. If you are a front-line worker or working from home, you must also consider how these adaptations will present opportunities for criminals wanting to exploit this crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the coming months, many of us will be subject to a range of cybersecurity threats, such as all-too-common\u00a0phishing attacks. Public awareness is needed to protect the digital infrastructure of institutions, businesses and organizations of all kinds, including our hospitals and public health facilities. Cybersecurity threats are moving very quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this poses unique problems for mitigating such risks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As an assistant professor of digital media in the\u00a0Centre for Digital Humanities\u00a0at\u00a0Brock University, I research the historical, ethical and even literary issues related to living a secure life online. I also teach on topics relating to\u00a0application security\u00a0and\u00a0social engineering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/working-from-home-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-creates-new-cybersecurity-threats-134954?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2010%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2010%202020+CID_40784e28751cab7cf57d154747c8b324&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Working%20from%20home%20during%20the%20coronavirus%20pandemic%20creates%20new%20cybersecurity%20threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Mauro, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about an increase in technological vulnerabilities for employees now working from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,6],"tags":[8542,263,384,30,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65241,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65237\/revisions\/65241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}