War in the clouds

Relying on foreign cloud providers raises serious concerns about who ultimately controls our data and the systems that host it.

New cyber laws at last?

The Albanese government has introduced long-awaited legislation to parliament to improve Australia’s resilience against cyber attacks.

Seeing off the cyberattacks

Hostile state hackers and cyber-criminals are repeatedly attacking key Australian institutions, including our hospitals and energy systems, so will new measures help curb this threat?

Crowdstrike highlights global complacency

The Crowdstrike fiasco highlights the fragility of the digital economy and drawbacks of a ‘just in time’ service system with no safeguards, fallbacks and spare capacity when things start going wrong.

Rolling back ransomware

Criminals around the world use malicious software to lock access to a victim’s data and demand a ransom for its recovery, so what can we do to protect ourselves?

Cyberwars

Malicious cyber actors are continuously targeting critical Australian infrastructure, and, unfortunately, they seem to be successful. According to a recent commercial cyber security report, Australia is the tenth most targeted country for phishing attacks.

Mapping global cybercrime

Three years of intensive research by an international team of researchers has informed the first ‘World Cybercrime Index’ which ranks Russia as the major threat to global cyber security.

Hacking the internet

Microsoft software developer Andres Freund may have saved the internet from a major, long-con, hacking attempt when he discovered a backdoor in XZ Utils, a data compression utility used by Linux-based computer applications.

Australia’s new cybersecurity strategy

The cybersecurity strategy released last week by the Albanese government recognises that Australia’s government, industry and citizens must work together to reduce the threats posed by criminal gangs and hostile state actors.

The keyless key to cyber-security

A cutting-edge collaboration between tech startup Tide Foundation and RMIT University is translating ground-breaking research into homegrown cybersecurity capability.

Known unknowns

The cyber-attack against Australian ports by an unnamed foreign power highlights the threat posed to the country, but the nation’s politicians remain behind the 8 ball.

The future of cyber-security

China, Russia and international criminal gangs are waging an unrelenting cyber war against the West, and so Australia must place cyber-security at the heart of its national security strategy.