Spyware merchants: the risks of outsourcing government hacking
Monique Mann, Queensland University of Technology; Adam Molnar, Deakin University, and Ian Warren, Deakin University An Australian Tax Office (ATO) staffer recently leaked on LinkedIn...
Hunting hackers: An ethical hacker explains how to track down the bad guys
Timothy Summers, University of Maryland When a cyberattack occurs, ethical hackers are called in to be digital detectives. In a certain sense, they are like...
Can your mobile phone get a virus? Yes – and you’ll have to look carefully to see the signs
Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia With nearly 84% of the world’s population now owning a smartphone, and our dependence on them growing all the time, these...
Budget 2022: $9.9 billion towards cyber security aims to make Australia a key ‘offensive’ cyber player
Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University In the 2022 federal budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg launched a range of vote-winning initiatives – one of which included a...
There’s no code of ethics to govern digital forensics – and we need one
John J Sloan, III, University of Alabama at Birmingham Let me begin with a disclaimer: I am neither a digital forensics practitioner nor do I...
New guidelines for responding to cyber attacks don’t go far enough
Adam Henry, UNSW and Greg Austin, UNSW Debates about cyber security in Australia over the past few weeks have largely centred around the passing of...
New cyber-attack model helps hackers time the next Stuxnet
Akshat Rathi, The Conversation Of the many tricks used by the world’s greatest military strategists, one usually works well – taking the enemy by surprise....
If two countries waged cyber war on each another, here’s what to expect
Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University Imagine you woke up to discover a massive cyber attack on your country. All government data has been destroyed, taking...
Cyber peacekeeping is integral in an era of cyberwar – here’s why
Helge Janicke, De Montfort University Cyber warfare is upon us, from interference in elections to a leak of cyber weapons from a national stockpile. And,...
Is counter-attack justified against a state-sponsored cyber attack? It’s a legal grey area
Sandeep Gopalan, Deakin University On March 23, the US Department of Justice commenced perhaps the largest prosecution of a state-sponsored cyber attack. It indicted nine...