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Digital Planet: Cyber Attack Risk Up By 9%

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Cyber Attack Risk Up By 9%

11/12/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Cyber Attack Risk Up By 9%

The risk of cyber attacks is up 9% this year according to new research

Cyber attack risk up by 9%.  Also cyber sex tech, security flows in hard drives and holographic lecturers at Imperial.

The impact of cyber attacks on the economies of the world’s largest cities is up by 9% this year.  Researchers from the Centre for Risk Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School say they do not want to be alarmist but hope their work will help governments, councils, companies and organisations to use their findings modelling like they would for instance flood modelling and then be able to plan for potential cyber attacks or data breaches.

Cyber Sex
Can tech make our emotional and sexual experiences better? Author and academic Dr Kate Devlin, who has just published her book Turned on; Science, Sex and Robots, believes it can. She recently organised two sex-tech hackathons to see if we can get away from the current image that we have of pornographic sex robots that satisfy the needs of computer geeky men.

Security flaws in widely used data storage devices
Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have discovered that widely used data storage devices with self-encrypting drives do not provide the expected level of data protection. A malicious expert with direct physical access to widely sold storage devices can bypass existing protection mechanisms and access the data without knowing the user-chosen password.

Beam me up Roland
Lecturers at Imperial College, London have a new star quality - they are getting the Michael Jackson treatment - being turned into holograms. The school has decided this will help connect their students around the world. Wanting a taste of the glory Roland Pease went to the college while they were testing out the system.

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(Photo: Cyber attack. Credit: Getty Images)

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