On Friday October 28 2016, the ABC published a news report about the disclosure of private blood donor information from Australia’s Red Cross Blood Service ( ABC 2016 ). The personal information of about 550,000 blood donors had been stolen, including names, addresses, and details of “at-risk sexual behaviour”. This is believed to have been … Read More.
Leonia AG is a 100-year-old company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, and is a global supplier of wiring systems and cable technology with 76,000 employees in 32 countries and a market cap of €1,015 Million ($1,140 M) listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Yet this behemoth fell prey to a fairly simple spoof email scam in … Read More.
Tor (The Onion Router) is now 14 years old and the biggest bugbear that users consistently moan about is speed. Riffle is proclaimed to deliver significant advances in anonymity technology, which includes both more reliable anonymity as well as being 10 times faster than Tor. It is the new anonymity joint development by MIT and … Read More.
The famous American criminal Willie Sutton was asked once why he robbed banks, to which he is reported to have answered, “Because that’s where the money is”. The statement is apropos to a question that many people are asking in response to the accelerating frequency of cyberattacks on hospitals. Because that’s where the personal information … Read More.
Image Source: commons.wikimedia.org China launches the world’s first quantum communication satellite to battle cybercrime. Researchers believe the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) spacecraft with quantum communication capabilities will revolutionize cybersecurity and possibly eliminate risk of intercepting digital communication. Quantum research has enabled unprecedented new ways to transmit digital information without succumbing to cyber-attacks. China … Read More.
On 9th August 2016, Australia was meant to have had its first online census. What happened instead out to be a farce – a non-event as millions of us tried to log in to complete the form, only to find that the website was down. The lead up to the census was controversial enough, with … Read More.