Ransomware like Bad Rabbit is big business
October is Cybersecurity Awareness month, which is being observed in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere around the world. Ironically,...
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Don’t fall for it: a parent’s guide to protecting your kids from online hoaxes
You can help your children investigate any online hoax. Shutterstock/junpinzonIt’s a parent’s responsibility to protect their children from harm, no...
Quantum computer: we’re planning to create one that acts like a brain
shutterstock The human brain has amazing capabilities making it in many ways more powerful than the world’s most advanced computers....
The Internet Archive has been fighting for 25 years to keep what’s on the web from disappearing – and you can help
People are warned that what they post on the internet will live forever. But that’s not really the case. 3alexd/E+...
Cybersecurity risks and how to manage them
Cybersecurity risks evolve rapidly, and are everywhere. Joshua Gandara/Unsplash , CC BY-SAThe Sunburst attack uncovered in December 2020 illustrates the...
Airports, ATMs, hospitals: Microsoft Windows XP leak would be less of an issue, if so many didn’t use it
ShutterstockThe source code of the Windows XP operating system is now circulating online as a huge 43GB mega-dump. Although the...
Marriott data breach: 500 million times concerned
On November 30, 2018, Marriott International announced an enormous data breach concerning 500 million clients, the second biggest ever. With...
Uber was hacked, so change your password right now. Here’s what else you need to know
Uber has admitted that a 2016 data breach put at risk the personal information of 57 million Uber users worldwide...
Coalition plans to improve online safety don’t address the root cause of harms: the big tech business model
At about the same time on Sunday afternoon that former Labor prime minister Paul Keating was referring to him as...
I build mathematical programs that could discover the drugs of the future
How will each drug interact with the proteins in your body? Evlakhov Valeriy/shutterstock.comDiscovering and designing a new drug is one...
