The battle between personal privacy and national security online continues.
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UK plc has a cybersecurity mountain to climb.
South Africans are being targeted by cyber criminals. Consumers are fleeced because their passwords make them vulnerable.
The restructure Google should look at the world’s big challenges rather than create solutions to problems that don’t exist yet.
There will be a quantum leap in securing online confidentiality with key distribution technology.
As big browsers and sites like YouTube drop support, are our Flash days numbered?
A new threat to secure online communication could be a symptom of a wider cyber security problem.
There’s no excuse for big firms letting basic attacks compromise their customers’ data.
Online voting could boost turnout, but a flawed system could destroy faith in the voting process.
Freed of the Liberal Democrats’ influence, here are some of the things the Conservative government has in store for us.
Two new forms of online harassment, ‘doxxing’ and ‘swatting’, are increasing in frequency. Here’s how to protect yourself from them.
An estimated A$75,000 is lost by Australians everyday to online fraud but police are having some success in alerting people before they even know they’re being scammed.
As the Australian government pushes on with its data retention bill there are still questions about what safeguards and protections are in place, and a look at similar moves that have failed overseas.
The endorsement of Australia’s data retention bill raises questions about why the reforms are being pushed now, when they had been resisted by others for so long.
What the experts think of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s report on the proposed metadata retention laws.
The Australian government’s meta data retention bill cares more about who you connect with than what services you may use. Yet many such online services may also be out of its reach.
The Silk Road trial has concluded, with Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running the anonymous online marketplace for illegal goods. But questions remain over how the FBI found its way through Tor, the software…
Following the trend of giving catchy names to serious operating system security flaws, the Linux vulnerability revealed recently by security researchers Qualys has been called Ghost. Like Heartbleed and…
The financial institutions of the City of London and Wall Street are to take part in a series of “war game” exercises aimed at testing their resilience to cyber attack. The announcement comes as prime…
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…
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Cyber Security, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor in Cyber Security, Adelaide University
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Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
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Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Royal Society University Research Fellow, UCL
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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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Director, Centre for Internet Safety, University of Canberra
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Computer Security, University of Kent
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University