A new threat to secure online communication could be a symptom of a wider cyber security problem.
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There’s no excuse for big firms letting basic attacks compromise their customers’ data.
Online voting could boost turnout, but a flawed system could destroy faith in the voting process.
Freed of the Liberal Democrats’ influence, here are some of the things the Conservative government has in store for us.
Two new forms of online harassment, ‘doxxing’ and ‘swatting’, are increasing in frequency. Here’s how to protect yourself from them.
An estimated A$75,000 is lost by Australians everyday to online fraud but police are having some success in alerting people before they even know they’re being scammed.
As the Australian government pushes on with its data retention bill there are still questions about what safeguards and protections are in place, and a look at similar moves that have failed overseas.
The endorsement of Australia’s data retention bill raises questions about why the reforms are being pushed now, when they had been resisted by others for so long.
What the experts think of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s report on the proposed metadata retention laws.
The Australian government’s meta data retention bill cares more about who you connect with than what services you may use. Yet many such online services may also be out of its reach.
The Silk Road trial has concluded, with Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running the anonymous online marketplace for illegal goods. But questions remain over how the FBI found its way through Tor, the software…
Following the trend of giving catchy names to serious operating system security flaws, the Linux vulnerability revealed recently by security researchers Qualys has been called Ghost. Like Heartbleed and…
The financial institutions of the City of London and Wall Street are to take part in a series of “war game” exercises aimed at testing their resilience to cyber attack. The announcement comes as prime…
In the wake of the latest high-profile hack of Sony and claims of “cyber-vandalism” being thrown about, it’s normal to feel a sense of unease. Just this week, yet another proposal for new cybersecurity…
Shoppers have launched into the holiday buying season and retailers are looking forward to year-end sales that make up almost 20% of their annual receipts. But as you check out at a store or click “purchase…
Digitising public services and putting them online to reap the cost and efficiency benefits is something that’s been tried with varying degrees of success. The UK government’s “digital by default” policy…
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Computer security relies on a great number of links, hardware, software and something else altogether: you. The greatest threat to information security is…
At the recent Information Security Solutions Europe conference, former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt claimed that most security threats may be persistent, but are not as “advanced” as…
In 2004 Bill Gates pronounced usernames and passwords dead. Gates, a man consistently thinking ahead of the crowd, was right. Most of us – including our employers and the online services we rely on – just…
A serious security flaw has been discovered in a ubiquitous utility program present on a wide variety of important computer systems, including many Unix-based servers and Macintosh desktop computers. “Shell…
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Cyber Security, University of Nottingham
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Senior Lecturer of Computing and Security, Edith Cowan University
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Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, UCL
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Lecturer in Computer Security, University of Kent
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Director, Centre for Internet Safety, University of Canberra
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
