Security Researcher, Associate Professor in Resilient Systems, Edith Cowan University
Dr Mike Johnstone is a member of the Security Research Institute and the School of Science at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia where he teaches secure programming. His research interests include critical infrastructure security, secure development methodologies, wireless sensor networks and cloud security.
Receiving a login code via SMS and email isn't secure. Here's what to use instead
Mar 06, 2019 13:55 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
When it comes to personal cybersecurity, you might think youre doing alright. Maybe youve got multi-factor authentication setup on your phone so that you have to enter a code sent to you by SMS before you can login to your...
Facebook hack reveals the perils of using a single account to log in to other services
Oct 09, 2018 15:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Facebook announced on Friday that its engineering team had discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. Due to a flaw in Facebooks code, hackers were able to take over an account and use it in the same...
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