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Forcing Workers Back to the Office Might Not Have Been a Good Idea After All (futurism.com)
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A new survey shows that the vast majority of senior executives say would've approached their return-to-work push "differently."

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Those networks are also not accessible from home networks, then. That is to say it's a valid point regarding each industry and company having different constraints, but it's not a concern over the security of home networks. If home/remote network security is ever the limiting concern, that can be mitigated by VPN.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    The issue of using a work device outside of the office is if you ever connect it to your home network off of the VPN, then there is a chance the device is compromised. A malicious actor could have targeted you because they want to gain access to your company and they saw on your LinkedIn that you work remotely. So they simply use some OSINT to find your address, run a geo search on shodan and wiggle to identify your homes IP, then use that as an entry point to compromise your router and wait for your device to connect to continue the attack. This may sound complicated or a lot of work but this is actually quite simple to do and takes only 10 - 15 minutes.

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