Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week we will explore the concept of the metaverse and what it holds for the future of technology and user experience. Illustration by Dorathe Victor When Facebook changed its name to Meta in September 2021, a new buzzword took over the tech world: the metaverse.

Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event aimed at raising awareness about data privacy and protection practices among businesses as well as internet users. In this blog series, we’ll attempt to do the same. This first blog post will shed light on data privacy as a whole, important data privacy laws, and some data collection practices that can help you adhere to these laws.

On June 23, 2021, threat actors reported that they had stolen a terabyte of data from Saudi Aramco, a state-owned oil company in Saudi Arabia. The threat actors released samples of data they had procured after redacting critical information. They also claimed to have detailed information on Aramco’s employees, such as their full names, photographs, passport scans, emails, phone numbers, residence permit (Iqama card) numbers, job titles, employee ID numbers, and family information.

Passwords have been the long-time guardian of our personal lives and data ever since the dawn of the internet. Though passwords might still retain most of their relevance, they are not robust enough to protect today’s digital economy.

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The year 2021 started off with organizations slowly reopening their doors and welcoming back their employees. This couldn’t happen overnight, of course. It meant devising new IT strategies to accommodate a hybrid workforce. Ensuring the organization’s business continuity is crucial for it’s sustenance, and this became the IT department’s primary mission.

The processing of data is a long-standing debate among governments, businesses, and tech giants alike. Major corporations are identifying data privacy violations and sharing how personal data should be handled and shared ethically. Government entities have framed their own laws on data protection and privacy to protect the personal data of their residents.

The world of cybersecurity has been constantly challenged since the pandemic started. With the dust still settling, a new concern has taken the entire cyber landscape by storm. A flaw in Log4j, a widely used Java-based logging library, allows hackers unbridled access to computer systems. The vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) affects everything from the cloud to security devices. Attackers have come up with worms that can spread independently from one vulnerable system to another.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn about social engineering, its types, its evolution, and how to avoid falling victim to a social engineering attack. Kevin David Mitnick is considered one of the most famous social engineers among the IT community. Kevin is now a top cybersecurity speaker and a best-selling author.