ZOOM, the virtual platform deployed by the Mesa City Council, has come under scrutiny over issues and concerns over privacy and security for city employees and their "work-from-home" contracts.
From a security perspective, the basics are critical - High on the list are concerns about misinformation, weaponized information and social engineering.
ASK > Who in Mesa City Hall is taking precautions ???
COVID-19 is our new common watering hole, and malicious actors are manufacturing phishing attacks, devilish spear-phishing campaigns, rogue applications and more. Regular, short, routine communications to remind people of the basics, to gain a pulse on the organization and to provide clear policies are essential.
ASK > Who in Mesa City Hall is taking precautions to protect our communities.”
The problem is not exclusive to Zoom video or Amazon storage. But in designing their service, Zoom’s engineers bypassed some common security features of other video-chat programs, such as requiring people to use a unique file name before saving their own clips. That style of operating simplicity has powered Zoom to become the most popular video-chat application in the United States, but it has also frustrated some security researchers who believe such shortcuts can leave users more vulnerable to hacks or abuse.
From a security perspective, the basics are critical - High on the list are concerns about misinformation, weaponized information and social engineering.
ASK > Who in Mesa City Hall is taking precautions ???
COVID-19 is our new common watering hole, and malicious actors are manufacturing phishing attacks, devilish spear-phishing campaigns, rogue applications and more. Regular, short, routine communications to remind people of the basics, to gain a pulse on the organization and to provide clear policies are essential.
Security And Privacy In A Brave New Work From Home World
from the security-from-home dept
We have moved to a radically remote posture, leaving a lot of empty real-estate in corporate offices and abandoning the final protections of the digital perimeter. For years, we’ve heard that the perimeter is dead and there are no borders in cyberspace. We have even had promises of a new and better style of working without being bound to a physical office and the tyranny and waste of the commute. However, much like the promise of less travel in a digital age or even the total paperless office these work-life aspirations never had a chance to materialize before COVID-19 forced us to disperse and connect over the Internet. This has massive implications on corporate culture and productivity. More immediately, the surge in use of remote work capabilities has consequences from a security and privacy perspective that cannot be ignored. . .
From a security perspective, the basics are critical - High on the list are concerns about misinformation, weaponized information and social engineering.
The problem is not exclusive to Zoom video or Amazon storage. But in designing their service, Zoom’s engineers bypassed some common security features of other video-chat programs, such as requiring people to use a unique file name before saving their own clips. That style of operating simplicity has powered Zoom to become the most popular video-chat application in the United States, but it has also frustrated some security researchers who believe such shortcuts can leave users more vulnerable to hacks or abuse.
Thousands of Zoom video calls left exposed on open Web
April 3, 2020 at 12:43 p.m. MST
