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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Earlier this month, the campaign of French presidential election candidate Emanuel Macron fell victim to targeted cyber intrusion efforts by infamous Russian hacking collective that goes by a number of names including Pawn Storm, Strontium, …
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 …
A flurry of activity on the cyber-policy front has accompanied the one year anniversary of Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy, which was launched by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on 21 April 2016. The Australian Cyber Security …
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 …
In big news this week for our Kiwi neighbours, New Zealand opened its first national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). CERT NZ, a deliverable of New Zealand’s 2015 Cyber Security Strategy, has been established within …
A second instalment of Wikileaks’ CIA series ‘Vault 7’ came out this week, following the first leak earlier this month. This new tranche, comprising 12 documents and codenamed ‘Dark Matter’, purports to outline how the …
Welcome back to your weekly fix of cyber news, analysis and research. The New York Times reported last Saturday that, back in 2013, President Barack Obama ordered cyber sabotage operations against Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. …
Russia’s been ruffling feathers across Europe again this week, with Ukraine accusing the Russian government of using a new virus to target its critical infrastructure as part of Russia’s ongoing cyber sabotage campaign against the …
Cyber news remains a bit topsy-turvy state-side thanks to the new US President. While Donald Trump was expected to drop a new Executive Order on cybersecurity a few weeks ago, it never “officially” materialised, though …
This week we continue our look back at some of the year’s biggest cyber stories in our final cyber wrap for 2016! China finally adopted its controversial new cybersecurity law on 7 November, much to …
Last month, Prime Minister Turnbull revealed that Australia is undertaking offensive cyber operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. That followed on from the first acknowledgement that Australia possesses offensive cyber capabilities at the launch …