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Love puzzles? You could pit your brain against cyber hack attacks in this fast-growing career area
When you’re doing a maths problem one small data point error can screw up your whole solution. So what if someone was opening your workbook at random, and changing the numbers – without you knowing a thing about it?
This creeping attack style is just one of the ways in which cyber criminals are hacking systems. And if these data points relate to someone’s health records, or a country’s defence system, then you get an idea of how devastating cyber attacks can be.
Earlier this year, a massive global heist attacked 230,000 computers in more than 150 countries. Drives were encrypted and made inaccessible, leaving people with a ransom note. The heist, caused by the ransomware called WannaCry, left victims unable to access their
own data without a decryption key. The criminals behind the program then demanded people pay a ransom in
the crypto-currency Bitcoin before they could get
access to the code that would unlock their data.
Attempts to hack companies in Australia have risen from 23.7% to 60% from 2015 to 2016, according to annual surveys by communications company Telstra.
Scientia Professor of the computer science and engineering school at UNSW Sydney, Gernot Heiser, told the ABC recently that his cybersecurity graduates were in high demand from tech companies such as Google.
Mark Staples heads CSIRO’s Data61 software systems teams in Sydney, Brisbane and Hobart, and says they often recruit software engineering graduates accredited with Engineers Australia.
He adds that graduates at Data61 also get plenty of experience on team-based projects. “Communication skills and team skills are really important: you must be able to work with other people,” he says.
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