Tag Archive for: "cyber security"
Making census of damned statistics

‘There are only two people I trust, God and the Commonwealth Statistician.’ So said Billy Hughes—statesman and patriot, renegade and mountebank—Australia’s seventh prime minister and federal MP for a record 51 years. Whatever the trust …

Cyber wrap

Las Vegas was the place to be last week, with the world’s largest annual hacker conferences, Black Hat and Defcon, taking over the town. The events unearthed lots of cyber gossip, but it was the …

Cyber wrap

President Obama released a new Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) on US Cyber Incident Coordination last week. The document laid out who’s in charge during ‘significant cyber incidents’ targeting the US, with significant incidents rated at …

Cyber wrap

Yesterday’s appointment of Malcolm Turnbull’s new ministry has followed through with the commitment made in last year’s Cyber Security Strategy to create a ministerial position for cyber security. Dan Tehan from Victoria has added Minister …