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Digital Planet: Covid-19 cyber attacks rise

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31/03/2020 GMT

Covid-19 cyber attacks rise

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Covid-19 cyber attacks rise

Cyber attacks relating to the coronavirus pandemic are increasing around the world

Covid-19 cyber attacks rise. Also can the internet cope with the massive increase in traffic and 3D printing cochlear implants to improve hearing.

Cyber criminals are exploiting the pandemic to send fraudulent emails and deploy all kinds of tools to steal our money, our contacts or our identities.  Armen Najarian, the chief identity officer at email security firm Agari, updates us on the latest coronavirus driven cyber-attacks including scammers pretending they are emailing from the WHO or CDC.

Can the internet cope with the massive increase in demand? 
Jane Coffin, SVP, Internet Growth from the Internet Society is an expert on internet access across the world.  We ask how is the network holding up with so many more people now working remotely and what is its resilience for the future?

3D Printing cochlear implants
Gareth and Bill visit Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang at the biointerface group at the University of Cambridge. During the interview in her lab her team prints a 3D cochlear implant.  It’s part of a growing field using 3D printing to improve medical care and aims to ultimately personalise cochlear implants allowing the patient to hear much more naturally than current implants allow.

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