Policy and legal efforts aim to stop these malicious security breaches, but they are growing more common as hospitals adopt remote health care delivery and hackers adopt artificial intelligence.
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Ransomware is a growing threat on the continent. There are a number of steps companies can take to combat it.
An effective communication strategy after a cyberattack can help a company position itself as a victim – if the strategy includes a commitment to affected consumers and employees.
International law enforcement efforts against ransomware groups achieved successes in 2024. More global coordination is needed to keep up with cybercriminals, who are constantly adapting.
If you’re tempted to do a make a couple of cheeky payments while waiting for the band to come on, think again.
The consequences of cyber conflict are primarily felt by civilians, who call for retaliation, fueling cycles of violence.
The Snake network has been detected in more than 50 countries, including Australia.
School officials are becoming increasingly wary of TikTok amid concerns that the app poses a risk to student safety and privacy and makes the nation vulnerable to spies.
It’s true that phones aren’t as prone to viruses as computers – but they’re still far from immune.
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a key cybersecurity tool for both attackers and defenders.
Ransomware has gone professional, with criminal consultants, affiliates and brokers – arresting them all will be difficult.
Crude text scams, sent en masse, only have to work a handful of times to make criminals significant sums of cash.
Most computer security focuses on software, but computer processors are vulnerable to hackers, too. An experimental secure processor changes its underlying structure before hackers can figure it out.
It’s still too early to say who attacked Channel Nine, disrupting its live broadcasts over the weekend. But fingers have been pointed at Russian state actors using a tactic nicknamed ‘wiperware’.
A ransomware attack on election-related government computers in a Georgia county raises the specter of more disruptions for Election Day voting and vote tabulation.
The outdated Microsoft operating system was recently dumped online in a huge leak. Hackers can now scour it for bugs to exploit.
Russian agents reportedly placed malware in U.S. voter registration systems in 2016 and are actively interfering in the 2020 election. Here’s the state of election cybersecurity.
The news that malware can invade iPhones and other Apple devices via the Safari web browser has damaged Apple’s reputation for security. But you can fix the problem by updating your phone’s software.
Cyber-criminals are targeting city authorities because they often pay out – but there are other ways to protect public data and services.
The idea of CRISPR as scissors ignores an entire ecosystem of moving parts that are crucial for understanding the awe-inspiring, crazy thing scientists are trying to do when they attempt gene editing.
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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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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Associate Professor of Information Systems, Brock University
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Professor of Operations Research, Brock University
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Senior Lecturer – Security, University of Sydney
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow in Digital Innovation and Wellbeing, University of Bristol
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Security Researcher, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University
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