In April, the government released their first annual update on implementation of the 2016 Cyber Security Strategy. We provided our assessment of that report on The Strategist shortly afterwards, and yesterday we released our own …
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The fallout from the WannaCry ransomware incident continued this week. ShadowBrokers, who released the Eternal Blue exploit used by the WannaCry ransomware, have announced a new program where members will gain access to new vulnerabilities …
The 2017 Cyber Security Challenge Australia (CySCA) kicks off today. Seventy-nine teams will compete over 24 hours for trips to cybersecurity conferences including DEFCON, Cisco Live, and RUXCON, as well as the possibility of being …
When confronting the problems of cybersecurity, it’s often noted that, regardless of time and space, we’re all exposed in some way to the same active and innovative threat actors. Shared threats promote cooperation, and sharing …
AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin revealed last week that an AFP officer had, in the course of an investigation, accessed the call record metadata of a journalist without a warrant, putting the error down to poor …
Last week the Australian Government released its First Annual Update on the implementation of its 2016 Cyber Security Strategy. The government’s much anticipated self-assessment contains some useful elements, but also suffers some significant shortcomings. Cybersecurity …
Today the Prime Minister will release the first annual review of Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy, which the PM foreshadowed in an op-ed for The Australian. The PM says that his government is ‘pleased with progress’, …
Friday marks 12 months since Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull launched Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy—a welcome development after cyber issues spent seven years wandering in the Canberra wilderness searching for a policy. The Strategy has prompted …
Telstra released its 2017 Cyber Security Report this week, and it seems that cyber threats are continuing to grow at a considerable clip. The report, based on Telstra’s own data and results from 360 business …
It’s now been a week since WikiLeaks released a cache of documents exposing the CIA’s cyber espionage tools and techniques. The discussion has this week turned to how the documents got into WikiLeaks’ hands. The …
Australia and Indonesia have agreed to deepen their cooperation on cyber security issues following the latest meeting of the bilateral Ministerial Council on Law and Security. The joint communique noted the Ministers had agreed to …
Welcome back to the first Cyber wrap of 2017! Since our last post in mid-December, the political fallout from Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US election continue to reverberate. On 29 December President Obama …