Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Japan’s space agency was likely penetrated by a cyber attack this year by unknown entities but no sensitive information about rockets or satellites was accessed, officials…
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‘Ineffable cryptography’ to protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks
Credit: Sora Shimazaki from Pexels Australia’s critical infrastructure—including ports, energy grids and water supplies—reported 143 cyber attacks over the past year, up from 95 incidents the year before. In response…
What is LockBit, the cybercrime gang hacking some of the world’s largest organizations?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While ransomware incidents have been occurring for more than 30 years, only in the last decade has the term “ransomware” appeared regularly in popular media. Ransomware…
Fake IDs for sale on the dark web
Internet crime. Credit: University of Technology Sydney. AI generated. Counterfeit Australian identity documents, especially driver’s licenses, rank among some of the most frequently listed and sold identity documents on anonymous…
Stellantis production affected by cyberattack at auto supplier
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Production at the maker of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram models is being affected after a cyberattack on an automotive supplier disrupted its operations, the automaker…
Australian ports reopen after cyberattack
DP World cranes at Port Botany in Sydney on November 13. Major ports handling 40 percent of Australia’s freight trade have reopened, operator DP World said Monday, three days after…
Australia ports firm fights to restore operations after cyber incident
The ‘cyber securiry incident’ has affected operations at ports in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. Ports operator DP World said Sunday it had made “significant strides” towards resuming normal freight…
21st century Total Wars will enlist technologies in ways we don’t yet understand, researcher says
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The war in Ukraine is not only the largest European land war since the Second World War. It is also the first large-scale shooting war between…
Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security
SecureLoop is an MIT-developed search engine that can identify an optimal design for a deep neural network accelerator that preserves data security while improving energy efficiency and boosting performance. This…
Online games use dark designs to collect player data, researchers reveal
Games sometimes manipulate players into giving away more data than they want to. Credit: Matti Ahlgren/Aalto University Gaming is a $193 billion industry—nearly double the size of the film and…
