Better 'basic hygiene' needed – cyber expert

Better 'basic hygiene' needed – cyber expert
Brent Melville
One of New Zealand and Australia’s top cyber-security experts says people and businesses need to be more attentive to their digital health during the covid-19 pandemic, particularly as remote workspace became 'business as usual.' IBM's cyber security chief technology officer for Australia and New Zealand, Chris Hockings, said hackers saw the pandemic mainly as an opportunity to extract value, with the level of online attacks through covid-19 related spam and phishing skyrocketing.  “People who were working in an office just weeks ago, sur...

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