TY - GEN
T1 - Boosting students and teachers cybersecurity awareness during COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Alrabaee, Saed
AU - Manna, Raed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/4/21
Y1 - 2021/4/21
N2 - The COVID-19 Coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China has become a global pandemic. In order to protect their country's residents, governments worldwide have ordered schools and companies to close and for people to quarantine at home. This has resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of digital devices and activity on the internet. Cybercriminals around the globe have seen this pandemic as an opportunity to initiate cyberattacks. This paper reviews the cyber threats that threaten users globally, as well as some of the attacks that have already occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. We then make suggestions to countermeasure these attacks and what can be done in the future to improve cybersecurity awareness and prevent them from occurring again.
AB - The COVID-19 Coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China has become a global pandemic. In order to protect their country's residents, governments worldwide have ordered schools and companies to close and for people to quarantine at home. This has resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of digital devices and activity on the internet. Cybercriminals around the globe have seen this pandemic as an opportunity to initiate cyberattacks. This paper reviews the cyber threats that threaten users globally, as well as some of the attacks that have already occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. We then make suggestions to countermeasure these attacks and what can be done in the future to improve cybersecurity awareness and prevent them from occurring again.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Countermeasures
KW - Cyber threat
KW - Cybersecurity
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U2 - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454089
DO - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454089
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112425840
T3 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
SP - 726
EP - 731
BT - Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021
A2 - Klinger, Thomas
A2 - Kollmitzer, Christian
A2 - Pester, Andreas
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021
Y2 - 21 April 2021 through 23 April 2021
ER -