Cyber Attack Risk Up By 9%
Cyber attack risk is up 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 don’t 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 has just published her book "Turned on; Science, Sex and Robots" believes it can. She recently organised two sextech hackathons to see if we can get away from the current image that we have of pornographic sex robots to 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. (Photo: Cyber attack. Credit: Getty Images) Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz