While Amazon Alexa skills facilitate users in their day-to-day activities, this personal assistant can go malicious as well. Researchers have found that vicious skills can bypass the Amazon Alexa skill vetting process. Researchers from the Ruhr-Bochum University have found how malicious skills can flood Amazon Alexa. Alexa skills are like third-party apps that run on… Read More »Researchers Identified that Amazon Alexa Can Learn Malicious Skills

Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and Apple all had their twitter accounts hacked last week. Generally, when twitter users are hacked, the primary reason is due to the individual user falling victim to a social engineering attack. In this case, 130 users were hit at the same time and it appears that… Read More »Twitter Hack – Lessons Learned

We’ve talked about how the rapid pivot to remote work has introduced a tremendous amount of new cybersecurity risks to companies. Teleconferencing has become an absolute necessity and some of the more popular teleconferencing applications have ran into widespread issues due to being overwhelmed by the volume of users. This has opened the door for… Read More »Zoom – A Cautionary Tale in Remote Working

According to the National Cyber Security Alliance: As many as 50% of employees will pick up and plug in a USB drive they find on the floor or in the parking lot which, in less than 20 seconds, has the potential to steal all of your personal data Approximately 60% of employees are using the… Read More »Businesses are Under Cyber Siege