What is Salt Typhoon? A security expert explains the Chinese hackers and their attack on US telecommunications networks

Chinese hackers are alleged to have broken into US phone networks, giving Chinese intelligence services a window onto specific Americans’ phone and messaging activity.

Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer, CSEE & Assistant Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County • conversation
Dec. 6, 2024 • ~8 min

Fitness apps can reveal your location – updated laws would help plug this hole in our personal security

More awareness is needed of security issues with tech used to track our exercise goals.

Pin Lean Lau, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Bio-Law, Brunel University of London • conversation
Nov. 8, 2024 • ~5 min

As an ethical hacker, I can’t believe the risks people routinely take when they access the internet in public

If you’re tempted to do a make a couple of cheeky payments while waiting for the band to come on, think again.

Christopher Patrick Hawkins, Lecturer in Cyber Security and Computer Science, University of Staffordshire • conversation
Oct. 8, 2024 • ~5 min

How cyberattacks on offshore wind farms could create huge problems

AI could help close cybersecurity vulnerabilities at offshore wind farms.

Kimberly Tam, Associate Professor in Cyber Security, University of Plymouth • conversation
Sept. 5, 2024 • ~7 min

Five notorious cyberattacks that targeted governments

From disrupting nuclear facilities to throwing national health services into disarray, cyberattackers often target the most secure government computer systems.

Rachael Medhurst, Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security NCSA, University of South Wales • conversation
Aug. 30, 2024 • ~6 min

How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks

Cloud computing powers services from transportation and healthcare to streaming services.

Amro Al-Said Ahmad, Lecturer in computer science, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University • conversation
Aug. 23, 2024 • ~8 min

Nasa’s science mission spacecraft are at risk from hackers, but a new law could help protect them

New US legislation could force Nasa to include enhanced cybersecurity for all its spacecraft.

Sharon Lemac-Vincere, Senior Teaching Fellow in Space and Cyber, Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde • conversation
July 23, 2024 • ~5 min

Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage: how a single software update was able to cause IT chaos across the globe

The recovery continues from the faulty software update applied to Microsoft operating systems.

Feng Li, Chair of Information Management, Associate Dean for Research & Innovation, Bayes Business School, City, University of London • conversation
July 21, 2024 • ~7 min

Major IT outage brings businesses around the world to a standstill – expert explains what happened and why

The problem was traced to a single Microsoft Windows update related to the firm Crowdstrike, but it could take days for companies to recover.

Alan Woodward, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey • conversation
July 19, 2024 • ~6 min

To guard against cyberattacks in space, researchers ask ‘what if?’

Sabotaged space stations, falsified space probe data and faked alien contact are just a few of the scenarios a report on space cybersecurity outlines.

Patrick Lin, Professor of Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University • conversation
July 3, 2024 • ~9 min

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