Dr. Zahid Anwar is a cyber security expert and faculty member at Fontbonne University, a private liberal arts university in St. Louis. Dr. Anwar is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked as a software engineer and researcher at Motorola, IBM, Intel, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), xFlow Research and CERN on various projects related to information security, operating systems design and data analytics. Dr. Anwar’s research interests include cyber threat intelligence and the security of the Internet of Things.
Today the world is focusing on the health and economic repercussions of the COVID-19 outbreak. Meanwhile, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the rampant fear and uncertainty people are experiencing.
The scale of data theft is staggering. In 2018, data breaches compromised 450 million records, while 2019 has already uncovered the biggest data breach in history, with nearly 773 million passwords and email addresses stolen from thousands of sources and uploaded to one database.
