Consumers feel excluded from Australia’s cyber debate

Recent cyber attacks have heightened awareness of the hazards of insecure digital systems and Australian consumers want to play a more active role in tackling hacking, online deception and malicious bots.

Protecting our privacy from criminals – and corporations

Corporations extract and keep huge amounts of personal information from their customers, then allow hackers to steal it through lax security. Reducing the amount of information they can hold would therefore limit the damage caused by criminal and state sponsored cyber-criminals.

Revil

Russian security services, cyber-criminals and state-sponsored hackers are waging war against the world, with Australia’s Medibank only one of thousands of victims.

Open season on your data

Companies demand more and more information from their users, store it for years for marketing purposes and then get routinely hacked by criminals who then use customer data to defraud them. Why don’t firms do something about it?

Who was behind the Optus attack?

Given the massive scale of the Optus security breach, the nature of the personal information and the utility of this data, the government should come clean about whether a state or criminal actor was behind the attack.

Cyberworld

Governments have focused on the practicalities of interests, threats and operating in the cyber environment and while such difficulties shouldn’t be underestimated, it’s not enough to focus on those alone.

Cyber-proofing small business

SMEs are not immune to cyber-attacks from hackers looking to steal user data, hijack their server or hold their systems to ransom, but a new Australian tool – auCheck – will help small business owners protect themselves and fight back.

Unglitching the matrix

New research from Monash University offers a new approach to help predict vulnerabilities in software code and strengthen cybersecurity.

Managing Australia’s software security threat

As our world becomes increasingly digitised and connected, attacks on software supply chains are only set to increase, particularly by hostile nations such as Russia and China on defence and security contractors.

Losing trust in the digital world

Cybersecurity thinking has adapted to the reality of constantly shifting, often unknowable systems, replete with continual interactions and adjustments between users, technology, data and the environment.

Fending off foreign meddling in the Federal Election

A new report has urged the Government to act now to protect Australia and the forthcoming Federal Election against online misinformation from hostile foreign states such as Russia and China.

Protecting human rights organisations from cyber-attacks

UNSW Sydney has signed a research agreement with Swiss technology company Neutrality to develop cyber network safeguards for humanitarian organisations targeted by hostile actors and foreign powers.