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Is Australia a Sitting Duck for Ransomware Attacks? Yes, and the Danger Has Been Growing for 30 Years

Is Australia a Sitting Duck for Ransomware Attacks? Yes, and the Danger Has Been Growing for 30 Years

Paul Haskell-Dowland Andrew Woodward Edith Cowan University Associate Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Professor Andrew Woodward is the Executive Dean of the School of Science, which includes the two major discipline groupings of

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Digital Exclusion and New Zealand’s Tech Future
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Digital Exclusion and New Zealand’s Tech Future

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities This month the Citizens Advice Bureau and a cross-section of the New Zealand community from around New Zealand arrived at the steps of Parliament to deliver a Petition calling on the Government to sort out digital

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Part 1: Why You Need to Get GETTR

Part 1: Why You Need to Get GETTR

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Meet Rumble, Canada’s New ‘Free Speech’ Platform — and Its Impact on the Fight against Online Misinformation

Meet Rumble, Canada’s New ‘Free Speech’ Platform — and Its Impact on the Fight against Online Misinformation

Fizza Kulvi McMaster University Fizza Kulvi is a doctoral candidate specializing in communications policy and law at McMaster University. She is interested in the societal impacts of new media technologies and devising regulatory frameworks to ensure that these technologies remain in the interest of the public. On June 23, the

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Grammarly vs. Prowritingaid Review: Which One Is Better?

Grammarly vs. Prowritingaid Review: Which One Is Better?

capitalizemytitle.com Capitalize My Title is a dynamic title capitalization tool used to make sure your titles or headlines use proper capitalization rules according to various style guides include APA, AP, MLA, and Chicago. It also counts your words and checks for grammar issues. Whenever it comes to the reliable

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It’s Not Just Bad Behaviour – Why Social Media Design Makes It Hard to Have Constructive Disagreements Online

It’s Not Just Bad Behaviour – Why Social Media Design Makes It Hard to Have Constructive Disagreements Online

Amanda Baughan University of Washington Amanda Baughan is a doctoral student at the University of Washington, studying human-computer interaction. Her research focuses on online conflicts, using human-centered design and computational social science methods. Good-faith disagreements are a normal part of society and building strong relationships. Yet it’s difficult to

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Why We Still Don’t Have Self-Driving Cars on the Roads in 2021

Francesco Biondi University of Windsor Francesco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor, and co-founder of the Human Systems Lab, a cross-disciplinary research team measuring and modeling human interaction with transportation and manufacturing systems. He also consults on research and legal cases issues involving driver distraction, multitasking, and

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Data Security and New Zealand
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Data Security and New Zealand

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities We are now over a month on from the Waikato DHB ransomware attack and the public are still completely in the dark as to how much of their personal health data has made its way to

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Do You Really Want Jeff Bezos Reading to Your Kids?

Do You Really Want Jeff Bezos Reading to Your Kids?

Orwell and Huxley offered differing, yet equally frightening, glimpses of our future. Each were, in their way, more prescient than they might have dreaded. Orwell, for instance, envisioned the “telescreen”, which not only beams a constant diet of propaganda, but spies on the citizens of Oceania. Huxley, separately, imagined a

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YouTube Apologizes, Reverses ‘Permanent Ban’ on Pro-censorship Pressure Group Right Wing Watch

rt.com Hours after banning the account of Right Wing Watch for allegedly violating their terms of service, YouTube has apologized and reinstated the Democrat pressure group arguing for censorship of “dangerous behavior” online. The group, which says it “monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations,” found

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Pattern Developing of Failings in Cyber Security

Pattern Developing of Failings in Cyber Security

Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Yesterday I successfully triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital. It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals’ IT systems in May. What’

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The Microchip Shortage: Rethink Tech Reliance

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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YouTube Blocks Channel Highlighting China’s Human Rights Violations

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. A video channel dedicated to highlighting human rights violations in China has been blocked

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