By David Barnett
In part three of this series of posts looking at emerging internet content relating to coronavirus, we turn our attention to mobile apps — another digital content channel that can be used by criminals to take advantage of people's fears about the health emergency for their own gain. One of the most common attack vectors we have found in our analysis is the use of apps purporting to track global progression of COVID-19, or provide other information, but which instead incorporate malicious content.
By Subhashis Banerjee
Modelling disease spread accurately at the micro-level with data collected through such apps appears to be a research problem that offers considerable challenges. The coronavirus crisis has brought out some much required public spiritedness in the Indian science and technology community, and there is now a strong urge to contribute meaningfully.
