The New South Wales government’s cyber agency is yet to verify other agencies’ security claims and has “no plan” to realise its maturity uplift target, despite a massive funding...
Cyber Security
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The Australian Signals Directorate is outsourcing key elements of its landmark national security uplift program, going to market this week for industry partners to help the cyber spy agency...
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A new industry association has set out to establish a cyber intelligence sharing community to help boost the cyber resilience of the largest and smallest critical infrastructure providers in...
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The Department of Defence will pay consultants more than $20,000 every day for the next 18 months to test the Navy’s cyber hygiene after years of government uplift programs....
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There is a central imperative in cybersecurity that is all about the immediate – to detect and respond to cyber threats as they emerge, very often in real time....
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Significant cyber-attacks could soon join fires, floods and tsunamis on the list of recognised disasters in Western Australia, with the state government now working to develop a specific emergency...
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A ransomware taskforce representing 37 likeminded governments and chaired by Australia on Monday commenced operation, aiming to improve global cooperation on disrupting the lucrative cyber crime. Agreed to in...
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Three law firms are pursuing compensation potentially worth billions of dollars for the Medibank customers affected by a massive data breach at the health insurer, while an investigation into...
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The bill for the federal government’s automated cyber threat sharing platform has skyrocketed to more than $59,000 a day because of the expansion into bidirectional sharing, increased industry participation,...
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Nearly 90 per cent of Australian government entities still aren’t implementing basic cyber resilience protections despite a growing risk, an annual assessment of Commonwealth cyber posture released on Friday...
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Australia will be “the world’s most cyber-secure country by 2030” under an ambitious new plan outlined by Cyber minister Clare O’Neil in Canberra on Thursday. It includes an entirely...
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The federal government has mandated that agencies use protective domain name system services to prevent malware and other infections from malicious websites in the wake of several high-profile data...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into the Medibank data breach that compromised the personal details of 9.7 million customers, on the same day the would-be hackers posted...
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Up to $25.4 million in grants have been awarded under the second round of the Cyber Security Skills Partnership Innovation Fund, just weeks after the federal government was charged...