If you think you’re not at risk from cyber crime then think again. Everyone connected to the internet is a potential target and hackers are gathering what they can to try to gain your trust.
Tell no one… that we’ve just lost all your data.
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Ross William Ulbricht, the tech-savvy Texan who created the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on charges that equated him with a mafia boss.
There aren’t enough skilled investigators to tackle the cybersecurity problem.
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Cyberhate would deny women their full democratic rights as citizens, yet this is trivialised and dismissed – just as sexual violence, discrimination and workplace harassment have been for decades.
“Unit 61398,” a secretive Chinese military unit believed to be behind many hacking attacks, sits on the outskirts of Shanghai.
Reuters
Recent data thefts that appear to be carried out by nations are unsettling for many reasons and raise profound questions about how we should handle them.
With cybercrime estimated to cost the global economy upwards of US$400 billion a year – and expected to rise – what are the challenges to beating the criminals?
Binary systems are not enough if you want to improve security.
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As hackers get more sophisticated in their cyber crime efforts we need to look to new technology to make our systems more secure, and potentially unhackable. So how can quantum physics help?
Forensics is a very different business when it comes to technology.
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Preventing and responding to the hacking epidemic is not a problem for one group or organisation to solve. And what happens in the first 72 hours can make all the difference.
Frustrated by a lack of investment in cybersecurity?
Reuters
The thefts make big headlines but rarely hit the bottom line, creating a moral hazard risk that companies won’t invest enough to beef up their security.
Facepalm… that sinking feeling of inaction.
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The European Commission’s annual Eurobarometer Cyber Security Survey, the third edition of which was recently released, is a substantial survey of more than 27,000 respondents from 28 countries. It contains…
We all need to clean up our online acts.
Intel Free Press
Decades of data security research have brought us highly reliable, standardized tools for common tasks such as digital signatures and encryption. But hackers are constantly working to crack data security…