Professor Adam G. Dunn

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Sydney

A new paper in PNAS: Mitigation of malicious attacks on networks

Mitigation of malicious attacks on networks

I have wanted to write something like this paper for a few years now, and I think this is a particularly timely piece. In the face of Internet kill switches, and subsequent to multiple large failures in power grids, the international group of authors describe the ‘onion’ topology (TOR anyone?) and the fragility (or should I say the robustness) of networks. Great work, timely, and looks to be well done. Once again, I’m jealous.

Meanwhile, I’m adding in a picture here from what I’ve been working on this week – but I’ll remove most of the contextual information.

example network

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  • Do Twitter bots spread vaccine misinformation?
  • trial2rev: seeing the forest for the trees in the systematic review ecosystem
  • How articles from financially conflicted authors are amplified, why it matters, and how to fix it.
  • Thinking outside the cylinder: on the use of clinical trial registries in evidence synthesis communities
  • Differences in exposure to negative news media are associated with lower levels of HPV vaccine coverage