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  • Associate Professor Vanessa Teague

    Chair, Cybersecurity and Democracy Network, School of Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne

  1. 19 November 2017 - Engineering & Technology

    Facebook, the Government and revenge porn

    Facebook and the Government are piloting a scheme to tackle revenge porn, but University of Melbourne experts ask whether the cost to our privacy is too much.

  2. 2 July 2017 - Engineering & Technology

    What kind of rear window into encryption do the Five Eyes want?

    As the government plans to force tech firms to decrypt messages to help "thwart" terrorism, University of Melbourne experts say it could make us more vulnerable

  3. 16 May 2017 - Engineering & Technology

    Q&A: The ransomware cyber-attack fallout

    Computers in 150 countries were attacked by the WannaCry ransomware – we ask University of Melbourne computer experts what we’ve learned from the hack.

  4. 5 March 2017 - Engineering & Technology

    iVote West Australia: Who voted for you?

    Voters casting online ballots must be able to trust the process. In a world where hackers have been accused of meddling in elections, iVote is not the answer.

  5. 28 October 2016 - Engineering & Technology

    Crime and privacy in open data

    Testing the strength of methods used for protecting privacy in open data is critical, and criminalising it will only endanger privacy.

  6. 29 September 2016 - Engineering & Technology

    Understanding the maths is crucial for protecting privacy

    Researchers have decrypted the service provider ID numbers in a 10% sample of the Medicare Benefits Schedule, raising serious implications around privacy.

  7. 2 August 2016 - Public Affairs

    Paper audits crucial for automated counting

    Scrutineers holding paper audits are crucial for automated vote counting – it's a key lesson from the PwC report into the 2015 iVote Internet voting project.

  8. 13 October 2015 - Engineering & Technology

    The women rebels, geniuses and pioneers who inspired us

    To celebrate Ada Lovelace day, some of our leading women academics from science and engineering discuss the female pioneers who inspired them.