What is LockBit, the cybercrime gang hacking some of the world’s largest organisations?
While ransomware incidents have been occurring for more than 30 years, only in the last decade has the term “ransomware”...
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Optus has revealed the cause of the major outage. Could it happen again?
Around 4.05am on Wednesday November 8 2023, Optus suffered a nationwide network outage lasting well into the evening, more than...
Optus blackout explained: what is a ‘deep network’ outage and what may have caused it?
Optus customers woke up this morning to find they were unable to get their social media fix, and they weren’t...
Most data lives in the cloud. What if it lived under the sea?
Where is the text you’re reading, right now? In one sense, it lives “on the internet” or “in the cloud”,...
Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy
Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post...
Traditional farming knowledge should be stored for future use: the technology to do this is available
Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices have played a critical role in development all over the world. For centuries, various disciplines...
Dark patterns: how online companies strive to keep your money and data when you try to leave
Artem Samokhvalov/ShutterstockHave you signed up to an online service for a free trial, decided it isn’t for you, but still...
30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own
Blacktown City Libraries, CC BY-SAThe internet is growing old. While the roots of the internet date back to the 1960s,...
Do unbiased jurors exist to serve at Trump’s trials in the age of social media?
Can anyone say they haven't seen any news about Donald Trump and the 2020 election? Raymond Boyd/Getty ImagesAs trial dates...
‘My brother will pick it up, what’s your PayID?’ How to avoid this scam when selling stuff online
Jenny Ueberberg/UnsplashYou’ve done it. You’ve finally bought that new sofa you wanted so much. The old one is still perfectly...
