The US and the UK realise the urgent need for serious investment in cybersecurity. So why is the Australian government taking the issue so lightly?
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The country’s actual offensive cyber capabilities remain shrouded in the classified world. But what is public is enough to discuss potential cyber weapons and how they might be used.
Cyber weapons are allowing states to attack each other without fear of retaliation. The consequences potentially are devastating.
The openness of the Internet gives an advantage to attackers – but what constitutes an act of war in the electronic world?
Warfare is changing, and our approach to dealing with our adversaries must change too.
Cyberwarfare may be of growing importance, but some foes must be tackled with more low-tech weapons.
Anonymous strives to bring down IS propaganda before it reaches the masses.
The cloud lies under the ocean. Thin cables about as big around as a garden hose traverse the Earth’s oceans carrying all our intercontinental internet data.
Increased submarine activity is fuelling concerns at Russia’s capability to wage information warfare on the West.
“Zero-days” are serious vulnerabilities in software that are unknown to the software maker or user. They are so named because developers find out about the security vulnerability the day that it is exploited…
The divide between ‘legal’ and illegal hacking is very, very thin.
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.
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…
The Twittersphere is abuzz about the news on Monday that ISIS or their affiliates are suspected of hacking and compromising the US Central Command’s official Twitter account. As of Monday afternoon in…
While there is only one world power on the internet, that situation will not last forever. The internet’s underpinning technologies were mostly created in the US, the initial networks were based there…
JPMorgan Chase early last month disclosed that cyber thieves pilfered account data on 76 million households and seven million small businesses over the summer, one of the biggest breaches ever and only…
Who’s in your network, checking out your data? The latest invasive digital creature is Sandworm, a piece of malware discovered to be using a previously unknown Windows vulnerability to infiltrate government…
President Bush is reported to have said: “When I take action, I’m not going to fire a US$2m missile at a US$10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.” As the quote suggests…
In a war – declared or otherwise – bravery and perseverance are not enough. Communications are important. Effectiveness means being able to command your troops and gather information. It also means being…
South Korea has made a suprisingly public announcement that it plans to develop cyber-weapons for potential use against North Korea. The decision to make its plans known is baffling and the potential consequences…
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research, City St George's, University of London
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service
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Fellow for Cyber-security and Internet Governance, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Professor of Practice of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex
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Director, McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, Auburn University
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Advocate, Senior Lecturer, University of Nairobi
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Senior Lecturer, School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia