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What the underground market for ransomware looks like

  • Written by: Roderic Broadhurst, Chair professor, Australian National University
imageThe market for exploiting software vulnerabilities can be traced back to the 90s where "phreaking" - modifying telecommunications technology - was popular.Jennifer/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The attack of ransomware “WannaCry” has put governments and businesses around the world on edge, but in fact the underground market for exploit or software...

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Can support for the jailed former Jakarta governor bring change in Indonesia's blasphemy law?

  • Written by: Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun, Lecturer, Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia

Across Indonesian cities and abroad, candlelight vigils have been held in support of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the Chinese-Christian former governor of the capital Jakarta. He was recently sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy for insulting Islam.

Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, is one of many people jailed under this controversial law....

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Australia risks missing out on China's One Belt One Road

  • Written by: Alice de Jonge, Senior Lecturer, International Law; Asian Business Law, Monash University

Australia is late to the party in only recently expressing real interest in China’s One-Belt, One-Road initiative (OBOR). And if Australian businesses don’t take advantage of the opportunities available in this project now, there are plenty of regional competitors that will take their place.

Australia became an unofficial OBOR partner...

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How resilience can break the link between a 'bad' childhood and the youth justice system

  • Written by: Kathryn Daley, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, RMIT University
imageChildren currently in – or who have histories with – residential care services are more likely to have contact with the justice system.AAP/Julian Smith

Most young people in the youth justice system have been found to come from “troubled” backgrounds. However, many people with similar backgrounds don’t ever end up in...

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  1. Banning early evening gaming ads on TV is like being 'a little bit pregnant'
  2. Why rent bidding apps will make the rental market even more unaffordable
  3. The Sydney Barrier Reef: engineering a natural defence against future storms
  4. Is Melbourne the music capital of Australia? Sydney or Adelaide might pip it to the post
  5. How to rein in the widening disease definitions that label more healthy people as sick
  6. The other Eurovision star hunt: Australia joins with Europe to explore the universe
  7. Australia should stop beefing up its steroid laws – that won't help users
  8. Why 2℃ of global warming is much worse for Australia than 1.5℃
  9. The budget is the government's Plan B, but what's Plan C if polls stay bad?
  10. WannaCry hackers had no intention of giving users their files back even if they pay
  11. Wondering if health fund premium rises are justified? Don't look to Bupa's accounts for answers
  12. Shifting the tax burden to middle-income earners will undermine jobs and growth
  13. After 'WannaCrypt', should governments stockpile software vulnerabilities? Experts respond
  14. What types of people will lead our great energy transition?
  15. 'Show me the sole': the exhilarating sight of sneakers on show
  16. Helping drug users get back to work, not random drug testing, should be our priority
  17. The off-topic Conversation #123
  18. Why do some graziers want to retain, not kill, dingoes?
  19. Navigating the post-truth debate: some key co-ordinates
  20. Los Angeles Overnight – one of the best films you will (probably) never see
  21. Coalition two-party vote slips in post-budget Newspoll
  22. From 'white flight' to 'bright flight' – the looming risk for our growing cities
  23. The gender pay gap is hurting productivity
  24. Why bad moods are good for you: the surprising benefits of sadness
  25. Terahertz spectroscopy: the new tool to help detect art fraud
  26. Fairytale no more: when love turns to hatefully ever after
  27. Australia’s biggest emitters opt to 'wait and see' over Emissions Reduction Fund
  28. Fireworks, feelings, and fraught relations at Eurovision 2017
  29. Massive global ransomware attack highlights faults and the need to be better prepared
  30. Former FBI director James Comey very likely caused Trump's win
  31. Drug testing welfare recipients raises questions about data profiling and discrimination
  32. Black is the New White gives the comedy of manners an irreverent makeover
  33. Two years after the earthquake, why has Nepal failed to recover?
  34. The federal budget doesn't do enough to save free-to-air TV
  35. Weekly Quiz: what is Colony Collapse Disorder?
  36. Don't be fooled, the Medicare Guarantee Fund provides no real guarantee
  37. Remembering Bill Tutte: another brilliant codebreaker from World War II
  38. Should we worry about Islamism in Indonesia?
  39. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the 2017 budget
  40. Distrust of experts happens when we forget they are human beings
  41. Every critic counts: why Fairfax must keep its arts journalists
  42. Why media reform in Australia has been so hard to achieve
  43. La théologie a-t-elle sa place à l’université ?
  44. Shorten fights on fairness in budget reply, but will it be enough?
  45. Friday essay: smile and stay thin – life as a 60s air hostess
  46. Not a lizard nor a dinosaur, tuatara is the sole survivor of a once-widespread reptile group
  47. Found: 'lost' forests covering an area two-thirds the size of Australia
  48. Assessment design won’t stop cheating, but our relationships with students might
  49. There's a strong link between anxiety and depression, and sleep problems, and it goes both ways
  50. Budget 2017 charts new social and affordable housing agenda

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