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Cybersecurity professionals are often portrayed as lone hackers in hoodies. But as well as technical skills, they also need to be excellent communicators and have a high degree of personal integrity.
Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been running wild in recent years, soaring and then plunging in value. A few stories from The Conversation’s archive offer a glimpse into their world.
When victims report cybercrime they want an offender arrested and prosecuted, but a report finds that rarely happens.
In reality, cybersecurity attacks are like a disease affecting people globally.
Trust is the keystone of the entire Internet system: without it more connection and therefore more commerce. How to restore it?
A new report highlights the worrying trends confronting security professionals – from more sophisticated hacking methods to hack-for-hire products and targeted attacks on tourism websites.
Kenya’s new Computer and Cyber Crime Act must not be abused by the criminal justice system.
The Internet provides us with many services thanks to sites hosted by servers. These may be the victims of denial-of-service attacks that paralyze the entire server.
Lotto scamming — a criminal enterprise largely targeting elderly Americans — is lucrative in western Jamaica, where it is thought to be behind 50 percent of all area murders last year.
Two days with former online fraudster, Brett Johnson, who once made it onto the infamous US Most Wanted list.
Allegations bring to the fore questions over the legitimacy of bitcoin – a sound investment tool or a massive scam?
Iranian cyberthreats come from independent hacker groups and from those suspected of having government ties. Their efforts may be part of a campaign to counterbalance other international powers.
The rate at which valuable identity information is flying out of the control of firms is alarming – more than 3,500 records per minute.
Like legitimate e-commerce, ransomware e-crime is increasing in scale, value and sophistication.
Cybercrime affects individuals and families as they navigate online life. But significant efforts focus instead on cybersecurity, protecting institutional networks and systems – rather than people.
Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies are not attacking us with bullets and bombs; they’re doing it with bits and bytes. It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, so what to do about the third world war being waged in cyberspace?
As cryptocurrency systems improve, they will better protect criminals’ identities and even allow people to offer anonymous rewards for crimes they want committed.
Cybercriminals increasingly depend on e-currencies to profit from their misdeeds. They, and their potential victims, could be driving some of the growth in cryptocurrency markets.
Many Australians are unaware of current police and intelligence powers when it comes to accessing our data.
Top contributors
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Visiting Fellow, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Cyber Security, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor in Cyber Security, Adelaide University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Director, Centre for Internet Safety, University of Canberra
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Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Lawyer, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Computer Security, University of Kent