{"id":842,"date":"2020-11-24T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cryptoloc.au\/?p=842"},"modified":"2023-10-03T06:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:23:41","slug":"2020-has-been-the-year-of-the-cyber-attack-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/2020-has-been-the-year-of-the-cyber-attack-report\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 has been the year of the cyber attack: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Security firm Crowdstrike has reported there were more cyber attacks in the first half of 2020 than in the whole of 2019, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ia.acs.org.au\/content\/ia\/article\/2020\/cyber-attacks-have-peaked-in-2020.html?ref=newsletter\">Information Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems the huge transition to remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has left workers and companies exposed as the opportunities for attacks rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said in a report released by its Overwatch analysis team that \u201cthe pandemic created opportunities for adversaries to exploit public fear through the use of COVID-19-themed social engineering strategies\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ia.acs.org.au\/content\/ia\/article\/2020\/cyber-attacks-have-peaked-in-2020.html\">Read the full story in Information Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security firm Crowdstrike has reported there were more cyber attacks in the first half of 2020 than in the whole of 2019, according to&nbsp;Information Age. It seems the huge transition to remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has left workers and companies exposed as the opportunities for attacks rose. The company said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}