Last Updated on 20 October 2022 by Daniel

Jan Lemnitzer, Copenhagen Business School

In the past five years, ransomware attacks have evolved from rare misfortunes into common and disruptive threats. Hijacking the IT systems of organisations and …

Last Updated on 19 October 2022 by Daniel

Jane Andrew, University of Sydney; Max Baker, University of Sydney, and Monique Sheehan, University of Sydney

The Optus data breach, which has affected close to 10 …

Last Updated on 18 October 2022 by Daniel

Abu Barkat ullah, University of Canberra and Mohiuddin Ahmed, Edith Cowan University

Cyber criminals are very persistent and the daily numbers of cyber attacks show no sign of decreasing. …

Last Updated on 16 October 2022 by Daniel

Carsten Rudolph, Monash University

On March 2, 2021, Microsoft published information about four critical vulnerabilities in its widely used Exchange email server software that are being actively exploited. It also …

Last Updated on 15 October 2022 by Daniel

Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University

Over the long weekend reports emerged of an alleged data breach, impacting half a billion Facebook users from 106 countries.

And while this figure …

Last Updated on 14 October 2022 by Daniel

Scott Shackelford, Indiana University

The FBI has the authority right now to …

Last Updated on 13 October 2022 by Daniel

Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham

For more than 15 years, there have been various predictions from tech leaders about the death of …

Last Updated on 12 October 2022 by Daniel

Edward Apeh, Bournemouth University

Boris Johnson’s personal phone number has been publicly available on the internet for 15 years, it has been revealed. Listed at the bottom of a 2006 …

Last Updated on 11 October 2022 by Daniel

Terry Thompson, Johns Hopkins University…