Pardon the Intrusion #16: Phishing in the time of COVID-19

Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Since COVID-19 began spreading all over the world, governments have embraced a variety of invasive contact-tracing measures via smartphones. Now Apple and Google have teamed up in a rare joint effort to do just that while possibly still preserving the privacy of individuals who use them. A few weeks ago they proposed an opt-in automated system which will use Bluetooth-based identifiers to keep track of whether a smartphone’s owner has come into contact…

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BY Ravie Lakshmanan