The way we talk about cyberspace may make us more vulnerable to hacking.
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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.
The situation of Marcus Hutchins – hailed as a hero for stopping one malware attack but charged with being involved with another – highlights the ambiguity of hacker culture.
Mayhem, not money, seems to be the ultimate aim of the latest attack unleashed on computer networks around the world.
When companies neglect cybersecurity, customers – and society as a whole – suffer. It’s time customers demanded better of corporations.
Movies tell us that paying a ransom means the bad guys win, but in the real world it’s not that simple.
Simply updating and patching an organisation’s computer software may not be enough to fend off another cyber attack. You could engage an ethical hacker to help out.
What’s the best way for spy agencies to protect the public: secretly exploit software flaws to gather intelligence, or warn the world and avert malicious cyberattacks?
The cyber-attack hit 200,000 computers and a number of big global organisations. But it hasn’t made much in ransom money.
Things might not be over for the WannaCry malware.
Small businesses are the forgotten casualties of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack.
The underground market for software vulnerabilities has been growing steadily since the 1990s, so the latest WannaCry could be a sign of things to come.
People don’t want to endure the interruptions and inconveniences of keeping their computer software up to date. Research tells us why, and how we might fix the problem – and protect ourselves.
“It is time for a digital Geneva Convention to protect the internet.”
NHS data is being held to ransom by criminals. This the mother of all wake-up calls.
Cybercriminals are using cloud-based services, much like regular businesses. A new study reveals important lessons for the future of fighting cybercrime.
You know it’s a serious problem when even Google and Paypal have been targeted.
Ransomware – which encrypts your files and offers to sell you the key – operates differently from other malicious software. Those differences turn out to give potential victims a fighting chance.
Here’s how to protect yourself from the latest online scourge of hackers encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to unlock them.
A widespread and virulent ransomware, Angler, is de-fanged by having the world’s most widely-used networking equipment ignore it
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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 of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Lawyer, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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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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Research Affiliate at the Ostrom Workshop for Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, Indiana University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Professor, Management Information Systems, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Director, Initiative For Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3); Assistant Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security, Edith Cowan University
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School of Science, Edith Cowan University