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Cyber-scams tend to ramp up at this time of year, with criminals and scammers eager to exploit people’s generosity and excitement.
The Five Eyes alliance is critical to hunting and detecting foreign cyber actors, but tends to work in secret.
Targeted online ads allow shady advertisers to fly under radar. History shows a need for public accountability.
Passwords have been around for decades and we’re still getting it wrong.
Universities hold valuable information but are large and porous communities, with legacy IT systems often adding to the risks. But following a few basic rules can help counter cyber attacks.
Just as office workers need to be aware of cyber risks when setting up a home office, parents need to think about the increased exposure their children will face to cyber threats at home.
‘Zoombombing’ trolls have started to infiltrate virtual meetings - bombarding unsuspecting victims with racist and sexist speech and in some cases, pornographic imagery.
Instead of going after large corporate networks, which often have multiple defenses, cybercriminals can now simply target people’s home networks.
Parents should have conversations with children from a young age about cybersecurity if they’re to develop the skills needed to be safe online.
Racism online is hurtful and damaging. But it can also spill into the real world with deadly consequences – such as the Christchurch terrorism attack.
As cities get smarter, we need to examine carefully who gets our data and what it is used for.
Because teenage boys and girls behave differently online, girls are more at risk for cyberbullying, and intervention needs to take this into account.
Parents should ask their teens to show them how they use social media and how it works so they can have conversations about what the risks are and how to reduce them.
Cyber safety can mean a different thing for those living in remote Indigenous communities, and it needs to be managed carefully.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield told Q&A that the Children’s eSafety Commissioner has investigated 11,000 cases of cyberbullying and can fine social media firms $17,000 a day. Is that true?
Telling girls and young women to ‘be careful what images you share’ contributes to the shaming and humiliation of victims by placing the responsibility back onto them for their own humiliation.
No matter how many times people are warned to set strong secure passwords, many don’t. So why do people take the risk? And is there anything else they can do to be more secure online?
Baseless claims about the damage done to kids’ development create needless panic. And they distract from legitimate, evidence-based concerns with which parents need to engage.
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Director of ECU Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University
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Security Researcher, Associate Professor in Resilient Systems, Edith Cowan University
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Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Doctoral researcher investigating governance of social media platforms, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of Systems Security, Coventry University
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Lecturer in Information Security, Governance and Leadership / Design Thinking, The University of Queensland
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Fulbright Scholar and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Monash University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer Indigenous Knowledges, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Domestic and Family Violence, CQUniversity Australia
