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As workers take computers home hacking against corporations surges
- Saturday | 18th April, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic work-from-home policies, researchers said. Corporate security teams have a harder time protecting data when it is dispersed on home computers with widely varying setups and on company machines connecting remotely, experts said. Even those remote workers using virtual private networks (VPNs), which establish secure tunnels for digital traffic, are adding to the problem, officials and researchers said. The biggest jump in volume came as computers responded to scans when they should not have. (Reporting by Joseph Menn in San Franciso and Raphael Satter in Washington; Editing by Peter Henderson and Christopher Cushing)
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