by Jane Whyatt
Cyber attacks against media outlets and individual journalists are prompting many to use encrypted channels and take training courses in digital self-defence. How can journalists best protect themselves, and what are some of the threats and obstacles they are being confronted with in that regard?
Cyber security. (Public domain photo, Pixabay.com)
In 2019, there has already been an attack on Malta’s campaigning online news portal The Shift News, via the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) method. This is a crude bludgeon-like instrument that simply means a network of computers is secretly and illegally harnessed together to form a ’botnet’.…