Qantas hack exposes customers – yet again

The hack of a Qantas customer contact centre in Manila has exposed, once again, the vulnerability of customer data held by Australia’s largest and supposedly most trusted companies.

Rethinking cyber crime

Australia is seen as a soft target for cybercriminals and our fragmented cybercrime response makes individuals, companies and institutions more vulnerable to state sponsored attacks and criminal hacks.

Combating cyber-espionage

Cyber-espionage against companies, agencies and governments in democratic countries perpetrated by hostile states and criminals is a growing threat to national security.

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?

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.

Fighting back against cyberattack

The woeful cyber-security standards of many western firms and agencies mean they are increasingly attacked, hacked and exploited by enemy states and cyber-criminals.

Australia’s new cyber czar

The federal government is further stepping up its efforts to improve Australia’s protection against increasing cyber threats, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing the establishment of a Coordinator for Cyber Security.

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?

Securing data to protect Australia’s critical infrastructure

If Australia’s laws and authorities are to help secure and defend Australia’s critical data, it must first be brought within the new security regulatory regime.

Battening down for another solar hurricane

Russia’s hijacking of solarwinds software to penetrate a host of Western governments and companies underlines the need for better cyber-security across the whole of society.

People are not the problem in cyber-security

The slow work of building human capability and a systems-level understanding is likely to yield better results in cyber-security than firing staff who make mistakes or micromanaging individual activity.

Rebooting Australia’s cybersecurity strategy

Strong cybersecurity must be seen as a mandatory part of doing business, irrespective of whether that business is conducted by a government department, a university or a small company.