The consequences of cyber conflict are primarily felt by civilians, who call for retaliation, fueling cycles of violence.
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School officials are becoming increasingly wary of TikTok amid concerns that the app poses a risk to student safety and privacy and makes the nation vulnerable to spies.
Australia’s new voluntary code of practice to make IoT devices more secure may expose consumers to greater risks.
The US is also ‘looking at’ banning the Chinese social media app.
Intelligence officials in many countries are concerned the company could be helping the Chinese government spy on companies, military units and government agencies.
North Korea’s cyber army is closely controlled by the ruling regime – a key difference from other countries’ cyberattack and espionage groups.
Social media and the internet has helped create a new type of sexual predator, forcing us to reassess our understanding of the terms “friend” and “stranger”.
Sooner or later, China will recognise the value of digital assets. This adds to the urgency of citizens ensuring they control the data trails that tell the world what they think and do.
The public must prepare to stand up for a free press, and against online censorship and surveillance.
Russian interests are far from aligned with those of the West, and no amount of revisionist commentary about Russia not being ‘such a bad guy’’ after all will alter that reality.
For decades, deterrence has effectively countered the threat of nuclear weapons. Can we achieve similar results against cyber weapons?
The Snooper’s Charter has cleared parliament, but there might still be a way to stop the government collecting all our internet histories.
The key factor to consider is not cooperation, but rather focus: One is an offensive military unit and the other a defensive civilian agency.
The new movie about the NSA leaker is a new way for the public to learn about government surveillance, communications technology and privacy. How well does it prepare the public for that discussion?
The EU’s highest court invalidated a key data sharing agreement between the union and the US, exposing the deep cultural clash over privacy and surveillance.
Who’s in your network, checking out your data? The latest invasive digital creature is Sandworm, a piece of malware discovered to be using a previously unknown Windows vulnerability to infiltrate government…
A year on from Edward Snowden’s revelations around state sponsored mass surveillance programs, some of the major players in the online and technological world (including Google, Mozilla, Twitter and Reddit…
The members of China’s military charged over cyber espionage by the US will never see American justice, but the case does break new ground in a fractious US-China relationship increasingly characterised…
In a surprising move, a US District Court has charged five members of the Chinese military with hacking six US companies to obtain commercial secrets over the last eight years. The move has been denounced…
Just ahead of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, Edward Snowden has sent what he hopes will be a strong message to the powers that control the internet in a video link streamed live to South by…
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Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
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Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, UCL
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Professor of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Information Technology Management, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Honorary Lecturer in Sociology, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Information Technology and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Safeguarding and Violence Prevention, Director of the Institute for Children's Futures, Manchester Metropolitan University