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A new threat to secure online communication could be a symptom of a wider cyber security problem.
Claims that a cybersecurity expert hacked an aeroplane’s cockpit might not be as unbelievable as they first seem.
There’s no excuse for big firms letting basic attacks compromise their customers’ data.
Hacking is a state of mind. Traditionally, hackers like to discover, understand and share the secrets they expose. They like to laugh at the dumb things they find. They’re not necessarily in it for the…
No matter how strong an organization’s cybersecurity, our own bad behavior could make us the “unintentional insiders” for the next big hack.
Cybersecurity is only as strong as the people behind the computer. And we often don’t understand the risks when we click a link.
The world is already short of computer security experts, but by 2017 that shortfall is going to have reached about two million. Criminal hackers cause damage running to billions of pounds every year…
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…
If cyber-crime is the tier one (most serious) threat that we are told it is, and we are experiencing upwards of 2-3 million cyber-threats each year, then why have we only had 350 or so prosecutions under…
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…
Autonomy is patriarchy’s supreme foe. It suggests self-determination, power, and control, and the “selfie” is a culturally ubiquitous iteration of autonomy. The release onto the internet of hundreds of…
The theft of intellectual property (IP) online is a serious matter. A 2011 report by the UK Cabinet Office estimates the value of lost IP to the UK economy at about £21 billion. Until recently the debate…
It has been a bad couple of weeks for social media and Twitter in particular. The degree of misinformation spread by social media sites in the aftermath of the bombings at the Boston marathon has given…
Yesterday the ABC was attacked, supposedly in response to the network giving coverage to an Australian visit by the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders. A Twitter user, “Phr0zenMyst”, claimed…
The arrests of five members of the hacker group LulzSec are unlikely to land a lasting blow for authorities in the “constantly moving battle” with politically motivated online collectives, experts say…
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Professor, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway University of London
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University at Buffalo
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, University of Chester
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Communications, The Open University
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Reader in Computing & Social Responsibility, De Montfort University
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Research Associate in Human Factors of Cyber Security, University of Bath
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Adjunct Fellow, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
