<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Thoughts on Mazin Ahmed</title><link>https://mazinahmed.net/tags/thoughts/</link><description>Recent content in Thoughts on Mazin Ahmed</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://mazinahmed.net/tags/thoughts/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Bad Marketing: COVID-19 and Cyber Security</title><link>https://mazinahmed.net/blog/covid19-and-cybersecurity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://mazinahmed.net/blog/covid19-and-cybersecurity/</guid><description>&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10; &#10; &#10;&lt;figure&gt;&lt;img src="https://mazinahmed.net/uploads/assets/static/930cf461-8dc4-4a43-9f98-3519cdda7004.png" alt="" class="mx-auto my-0 rounded-md" /&gt;&#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Cyber Security, as well as many industries, is trying to use COVID-19 for marketing purposes. As sad as it sounds, it&amp;rsquo;s true.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;COVID-19-themed attacks by threat actors are real. However, this is nothing new to the security world. We have always seen APTs utilizing global (and local) events and situations to their benefit. Threat Intelligence is the way to understand and protect against these attacks quickly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>