The federal government’s $1.7 billion 2020 Cyber Security Strategy document lacked the kind of strong organising principle to adequately address the cyber challenges of the less secure world, according...
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Google has gone on the offensive against the Australian government’s plans to force it to enter into revenue-sharing agreements with media companies, issuing a series of threats over the...
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The federal Health department has stood by COVIDSafe at a Senate hearing, despite confirming it was yet to identify a new close contact in Victoria, where contact tracers stopped...
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The Digital Transformation Agency is expanding its COVID-19 response team as part of a wave of new hirings for the government’s digital office, which has battled high levels of...
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Private companies running nationally significant systems will be given legal impunity to fight cyber threats, while the federal government will be allowed to take control of these companies in...
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Supplementary research undertaken in the months since the release of Verizon’s authoritative Data Breach Investigations Report has put a spotlight on what anecdotally we already knew too well –...
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New South Wales will soon have its own contact tracing app with the state government trialling a new function on its digital licence to enable venue-based tracing that will...
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In 2008 – the year that the first round of “Service Delivery Reform” was getting underway – my daughter had her first baby. The bureaucracy would come to call...
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Australian law enforcement agencies are yet to use the coercive anti-encryption powers handed to them nearly two years ago, with Labor MPs questioning whether they are necessary at all....
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Late last week (August 6), the Department of Home Affairs finally released the much anticipated Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy 2020. It follows hot on the heels of the industry...
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The Australian Federal Police used its new encryption-busting powers only three times in the last year and is still yet to call on the more forceful elements of the...
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has issued a warning on the threats posed by foreign interference, cyber-attacks and disinformation in the Indo-Pacific region, as the federal government prepares to unveil...
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In what seems to be a common occurrence, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again in the headlines. After months of speculation about national security risks and users’ data being harvested...
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The Australian Data and Digital Council’s future remains unclear and is officially “under review” after the COAG model within which it operates was scrapped earlier this year. Prime Minister...