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Cyber‑Security 101: Why Every Digital Citizen Needs the Basics

Two months ago my neighbour’s smartphone buzzed during dinner: “Your Netflix account is on hold—click here to re‑activate.”Half‑asleep after a

 

Stop Blaming Hackers Start Fixing People: How a Single Phone Call Cracked Qantas and What It Means for the Rest of Us

If the past two years have taught Australia anything about cybersecurity, it is this: the attacker’s most reliable entry point

 

The Vanishing Safety Net of the Coding Degree

For most of the last two decades, a computer-science degree was the golden ticket of higher education. Parents pointed to

 

Cloudflare’s Election-Day Heroics Highlight a Deeper Problem, Democracy Now Depends on a Single Private Gatekeeper

In early November 2024, the cyber “October Surprise” that many security analysts feared never arrived. Cloudflare, one of the world’s

 

Cyber Shadows Over A Hot War: Why Iran-Israel Tensions Now Threaten Your Bank Account and Power Grid

Missiles, drones and televised air-raid sirens dominate the evening news, yet the most transformative front in the Iran-Israel confrontation is

 

Meta Ramps Up AI Arms Race After Failed Bid for $30 Billion Startup

Meta Platforms has accelerated its push to close the talent gap in artificial intelligence, moving to recruit star AI entrepreneurs

 

Google’s Quiet Patch and the Loud Wake-Up Call About Phone-Number Security

When news broke that an independent researcher had managed to uncover the recovery phone number for any Google account with

 

7 Signs Your Computer Might Be Hacked (And What to Do About It)

You know that feeling when something just feels… off? You might dismiss it as paranoia, but when it comes to

 

Brace for the AI-Powered Zero-Day Storm

In cybersecurity circles, the phrase “it’s not if but when” has long been a gloomy mantra. Now, with generative AI

 

AI Won’t Replace Cybersecurity—But It Has Rewritten the Battlefield

Picture yourself as a garden-variety cyber-crook. Yesterday’s payoff came from flogging stolen credit-card numbers in shady forums. Today, armed with

 

The Class of 2025 Meets a Different Cyber Job Market

For the better part of a decade, the narrative around cybersecurity hiring was simple: too many vacancies, not enough people.

 

Can Google Escape Its Own Gravity?

When Sundar Pichai bounded onstage at Google I/O last week, he promised nothing less than “a total re-imagining of Search”.

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