BA’s handling of the latest corporate cyber attack shows a catalogue of missed opportunities.
- Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
Will GDPR usher in a fresh start for the internet? A look at the four main foundation elements and how they affect you.
Lorsque vous visitez certains sites et utilisez leurs services, soi-disant gratuits, ils peuvent utiliser votre ordinateur pour fabriquer de la monnaie virtuelle. C’est le cryptojacking.
National cryptocurrencies could make payments faster and prevent crime, but they come with their own risks.
The Pirate Bay is among those accused of using customers’ computers to mine cryptocurrency.
The cyber-attack hit 200,000 computers and a number of big global organisations. But it hasn’t made much in ransom money.
Using sound waves to disrupt sensor functions is just one of a growing number of “side-channel attacks” that could affect our devices.
How the internet has made us terrifyingly vulnerable.
Who really knows where the EU referendum is headed: the pollsters, or the bookies?
The cryptocurrency will soon undergo a major change – and no one knows what will happen next.
The Investigatory Powers Bill raises plenty of questions. Here are the answers.
Programming cars to make ethical decisions like humans poses problems.
When Facebook goes down it’s an irritation. But as the world moves its data and processing to the cloud, the potential for major loss grows ever greater.
Poor-quality crypto puts millions of car owners at risk – so why did UK courts help try to cover it up?
Google has become a technology giant, but it’s trying to keep its small-company ethos alive.
Car manufacturers need to get a handle on their software problem, before cars start crashing.
When hackers take down companies in response to their actions, security chiefs need to know what the CEO is saying in public.
The security breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) demonstrates governments have a lot to learn about protecting their documents from cyber attacks.
A decision against Google in its court case against Oracle this week could lay the ground for upheaval in the industry.
There’s no excuse for big firms letting basic attacks compromise their customers’ data.
A word of advice: don’t try and build your own cryptography. It’s hard and others have done it better.
PC box shifter Lenovo’s public whipping for serving up malware in its default installs should be a lesson to all.
We have spent years promoting the need for change in our approach to internet infrastructure, forcing politicians to recognise it as a serious issue. So it’s great to see Barack Obama tackling the issue…
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement…
We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood secret messages, or secrets and codebreaking of national importance. With a film, The…
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