Everyone’s grounded, but in some cases productivity is still increasing. However, truth is far worst than you can imagine. A new danger – even bigger than Coronavirus is preparing to emerge. Cyber crime is worse than the pandemic.
Last week on Digital Space’s Twitter profile — where cyber pirates brag about hacking other people’s data — someone announced illegal access and breach to the databases of one of the biggest universities in Brazil.
“Now we possess the e-mail, passwords and personal documents of more than 4 thousand people at USP (University of São Paulo), A Digital Space hacker, announced.
Meanwhile over the world, authorities reported a series of cyber-attacks. Scams in form of promises to retrieve information, like vaccination to all citizens through a link and a guaranteed refund costs from the government, and other phishing hacks are just some examples of scams used to deceive in a fragile time.
There is a huge security problem using your home PC to work. It’s simply not safe. It’s worse than the pandemic.
It’s bigger than life. The past few weeks cyber attacks succeed all homer the world at light speed growth. lots and lots of companies got freezes, mugged and robbed from their most important asset: their informations and data. Trade secrets, intelectual property and personal data were compromised and managers and owners incurred in operational, legal and reputational losses.
CTOs and cyber security experts work in a non stop basis to prevent banks and large data related businesses from being breached thousands of times every day. the take care of ultra complex cyber infrastructures designed to secure companies information and procedures. Companies spend huge amounts of money protecting them.
Now imagine what might happen if you access critical info from you children computer. Remember! They are used to play games, download movies and god knows what more ….
What if, instead an innocent college professor, the hacker’s target was a nuclear power plant senior engineer. Imagine him login in the main reactor cooling system using the same browser of your daughters netflix account. The new Vampire diaries.
But it might become even worse. What if someone shuts down the internet. What will become left of mankind?