Cyber threat actors are taking advantage as the whole world is relying on the internet to stay connected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to trusted sources, the number of phishing sites has been increased to 350 from January 2020 to March 2020.

The FBI also warned the citizens of America to beware of the scammers as they are using COVID-19 to steal their money and personal information.

Even with reliable email protection services in use. Still, email impersonation is tough to spot. Gmail or other secure mail servers, usually identify malicious email links and attachments, blocks the vast majority of emails containing spam, phishing attempts, and malware.

Fortunately, Our InfoSec experts provide suggestions and recommendations for you to save yourselves from cyber attackers.

Prevent Zoom Vandalism:

Experts of IT security services shared the proactive steps to prevent strangers from joining your Zoom meeting. The default setting of zoom is that only the host can share the screen. The IT security team has updated the Zoom to identify the guest by highlighting their name in orange, which helps in separating new guests from hosts and team members.

Zoom accounts can mute the participants at the entry of meetings, can disable private chats between the individuals or public conversations, and also set a password for meetings so that no unwanted guest can enter the meeting.

Set Up One Password:

The admin needs to remember only one password to its 150 different social media accounts, which even includes banking and streaming accounts.

Organization members can setup similar passwords in LastPass Enterprise. LastPass is a password manager software tool that is offered to Duke community members at no charge.

LastPass lets you save you all passwords in a single place, like an easy-to-use vault. Once installed, LastPass helps you log in to websites by prompting you to keep the password and later fill it for you, so you don’t have to remember every password.

Share Sensitive Content On Box:

Box provides all employees and students to obtain, reserve, and distribute data safely. It is also supporting a classroom setting where questions are asked, and knowledge is shared.

You can use a box for sharing private information. You can never trace a document when it is attached to an email, but Box lets you put an expiry date on the document. You can even determine who can view and download the document.