CORONAVIRUS LATEST: COVID-19 has now killed nearly 200,000 people worldwide. —DHS warns of 'opportunity' for criminal activity created by online learning —WHO warns against 'immunity passports' —138 inmates in Colorado prison test positive
10:37 a.m.: UK death toll surpasses 20,000
A man wearing a face mask crosses Millennium Bridge, as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, in London, Britain, April 25, 2020. The risks outlined include theft of login information, identify theft, the ability of cybercriminals to obtain discarded computers that still had cached data on their drives, extortion by using confidential student or employee data to blackmail either the educational institution or an individual, or denial-of-service attacks in exchange for ransom payments.
They are warning employees who work on security and defense of IT systems to take proper precautions.In response to some governments suggesting that detection of COVID-19 antibodies could serve as the basis of an"immunity passport" that would allow people to travel or return to work assuming they are protected from contracting again or spreading the coronavirus, the World Health Organization issued a warning that said such a program is not backed up by scientific evidence.
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