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Coronavirus Warning: Cybersecurity expert outlines the dangers of working from home

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As more businesses encourage staff to work from home amid the Covid-19 outbreak, a computer science lecturer at Loughborough University has urged workers to check their security settings.

Dr Asma Adnane said remotely accessing sensitive business data causes additional cybersecurity risks, and she encouraged anyone planning on working from home to speak to their IT department first.

She advises the use of secure connections such as a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which effectively encrypts data travelling between a user's computer and the work network. "Working from home might be convenient and safer for you, but this might not be safer for the services and the data you are accessing remotely, especially if you are handling sensitive or

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