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Paul Haskell-Dowland has been in the cybersecurity research and education domain for two decades — and it’s his mission to teach us all how to stay safe online. This is important work for the Edith Cowan University Professor of Cybersecurity Practice. The cost of cybercrime in Australia is very high, although the figures are likely to be even greater than the reported data suggest. Cybercriminals operate in a highly sophisticated environment. ( Provided: Paul Haskell-Dowland ) “Estimated [a couple of years ago] that the global cost of cybercrime … will reach the $1 trillion mark, and I believe it has passed that,” he said. “It’s very difficult to get an accurate indication of these numbers, because so much cybercrime goes unreported.” Professor Haskell-Dowland, who is also Associate Dean for Computing and Security, said for many people their only insight into the world of cybercrime is what is portrayed in the media in films like Hacker, and ev...

ATLANTA—A new universal flu vaccine protects against the influenza B virus, offers broad defense against different strains and enhances immune protection, according to a new study by researchers at Georgia State University’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences. The double-coated protein nanoparticle vaccine, prepared with a stable moiety of the influenza virus (stem hemagglutinin (HA), induces a broad reactive immune response and provides strong and sustained cross-protection against influenza B virus strains of both lineages. The findings are published in the journal. Biomaterials. Influenza epidemics pose a major threat to public health, and influenza type B coincides with several severe flu outbreaks. About a quarter of clinical infections are caused by the influenza B virus each year. Influenza B viruses are sometimes the dominant strain circulating during influenza season, such as the 2019-20 US flu season when influenza B caused more than 50 percent of infections. Influenza ...

by Jan Grabowski, TWINCORE – Zentrum für Experimentelle und Klinische Infektionsforschung The isomeric structure of itaconic acid. Credit: CC-BY F. Chen et al. The endogenous itaconic acid molecule has antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects, as recently demonstrated by researchers from TWINCORE. In collaboration with scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig and the Helmholtz Saarland Pharmaceutical Research Institute, they have now investigated the closely related substance citric acid. The result: Citraconic acid protects cells through its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It also inhibits the release of flu viruses from human cells. They published these results in the journal Natural Metabolism . “Itaconic acid has two isomers, natural relatives that differ only slightly in their chemical structure,...