Australia’s top cyber spy agency has released a new digital tool it hopes will shave days if not months off the time needed to analyse large-scale malware and engineer...
Cyber Security
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It feels like only yesterday that ChatGPT took the world by storm. Its ability to reason and give human-like responses made everyone believe that artificial intelligence is set to...
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Chronic underreporting of cybersecurity incidents has taken hold across the federal government, with most agencies failing to report the majority of incidents to Australia’s top cyber spy in each...
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Victoria’s privacy watchdog has launched a formal investigation into a major data breach potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of current and former public school students. The Office of the...
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Public hospitals in NSW have been operating below both state and federal cybersecurity minimum standards and would be unprepared to deal with a cyber-attack, a damning audit has revealed....
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US cloud, cyber and software firms have called on policymakers to unwind Australia’s data localisation laws and reconsider “sovereignty” goals, claiming the geo-bounding actually increases cybersecurity risks. AWS, Google...
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Veteran cybersecurity academic Dr Jill Slay has been appointed by the federal government to lead an independent review of Australia’s critical infrastructure laws. The review — the first since...
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Australia’s spy chief said hackers working for the Chinese government and military had probed Australia’s telecommunications network and critical infrastructure, warning on Wednesday of the potential for disruption to...
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Britain plans to strengthen its public services’ defences against cyberattacks, requiring companies that provide services to private and public sector organisations such as the National Health Service to meet...
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Australia has imposed sanctions and travel bans on North Korean entities and an individual believed to be stealing cryptocurrency and running IT work scams to fund the authoritarian state’s...
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Federal agencies will be legally required to remove technology listed on a new government-wide “deny list” by the end of the month in response to increasingly complex threats of...
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A landmark UN cybercrime treaty, aimed at tackling offences that cost the global economy trillions of dollars annually, was signed in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi by around 60 countries over...
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Quantum computing is sounding less like a distant sci-fi dream these days, with the pace of investment and scientific advances bringing it closer to reality. These new quantum systems...
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The federal government has appointed cyber veteran Jessica Hunter as Australia’s new Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology, a key role that links diplomatic, national security and industry...