(This is our CINS Army Brief for May 2020. Learn more and subscribe here.)

The COVID pandemic has triggered a curious assortment of items in short supply: Toilet paper, medicine, and yeast to name a few.

While certain ingredients are slow to restock, the most essential ingredient in the effort to reduce security risk is readily available: You! So, find a comfy chair, fire up that laptop, and peruse these articles we’ve gathered for your ever-expanding mind and waistline.

• Three Years After WannaCry, Ransomware Accelerating While Patching Still Problematic
  https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/three-years-after-wannacry-ransomware-accelerating-while-patching-still-problematic/d/d-id/1337794
• Most businesses using more than 50 cybersecurity products at once
  https://www.itproportal.com/news/most-businesses-using-more-than-50-cybersecurity-products-at-once/
• Cyber Insurers Get Tough on Risk Assessments Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
  https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyber-insurers-get-tough-on-risk-assessments-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-11589794201
• Not Properly Protecting Connected Environments is Unnecessarily Risky
  https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/article/21131251/manufacturing-security-needs-help
• Texas Takes Second Ransomware Hit
  https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/texas-takes-second-ransomware-hit/
• Illegal film streaming sites thriving under lockdown
  https://www.techradar.com/news/illegal-film-streaming-sites-thriving-under-lockdown
• Dangerous Phishing Malware Runs Rampant With Coronavirus Data-Infused Excel Spreadsheets
  https://hothardware.com/news/covid-19-malware-campaign-uses-excel
• Secret Service investigating a crime ring inundating unemployment offices with fake claims
  https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/17/21261697/secret-service-crime-unemployment-fraud-coronavirus
• Critical security concerns facing the energy & utility industry
  https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/critical-security-concerns-facing-the-energy-utility-industry/
• Phishers Start to Exploit Oil Industry Amid COVID-19 Woes
  https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/phishers-start-to-exploit-oil-industry-amid-covid-19-woes/d/d-id/1337683
• Financial gain trumps espionage as top motivator in cyber attacks: report
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybersecurity-verizon/financial-gain-trumps-espionage-as-top-motivator-in-cyber-attacks-report-idUSKBN22V0DB