Crypto-Mining Malware Grew By Over 4,000 Percent in 2018
Instances of crypto-mining malware increased by well over 4,000 percent this year, according to research from McAfee. In its December 2018 report,…
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Better security achieved with randomly generating biological encryption keys
Data breaches, hacked systems and hostage malware are frequently topics of evening news casts — including stories of department store, hospital,…
How a personality trait puts you at risk for cybercrime
Credit: CC0 Public DomainImpulse online shopping, downloading music and compulsive email use are all signs of a certain personality trait that make…
How many passwords can you remember?
Credit: CC0 Public DomainGot too many passwords to remember? Just wait. It’s going to get a lot worse.
Average consumers five years from now may…
Cybersecurity needs more non-tech people
Australia is under a cyber siege. The country currently receives more cyber attacks than any other country in the Asia Pacific, the Cisco 2018 Asia…
Google Expedites Closing Google+ After Another Security Bug
We knew Google+ was shutting down but Google announced they are now expediting this process since a new security bug was discovered with the…
Strangers in your servers: data security and the gig economy
More and more organisations are employing outside contractors to do all kinds of work; supplementing their internal teams, adding talent in…
The privacy risks of compiling mobility data
MIT researchers find that the growing practice of compiling massive datasets about people’s movement patterns for urban planning and development…
Australia passes cyber snooping laws with global implications
Under the legislation, Canberra can compel local and international providers to remove electronic protections, conceal covert operations by…
New attack could make website security captchas obsolete
Credit: CC0 Public DomainResearchers have created new artificial intelligence that could spell the end for one of the most widely used website…