US formally blames Russia for email leaks
12 October, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe US Department of Homeland Security said an investigation suggests that the Russian government is behind the recent DNC email leaks to Wikileaks and other sites.
IBM assured ABS of census site resilience
26 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe ABS had contracted IBM to put in place DDoS protections to prevent the kind of incident that led to last month's census site outage, and had been assured by the vendor that the risk had been mitigated.
IoT businesses fall behind with privacy concerns
26 September, 2016It has been revealed that 71% of devices do not provide a privacy policy that adequately explains how personal information is managed.
US states paying more attention to security
21 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingUS state CIOs and CISOs are making progress educating officials about cybersecurity risks and practices, but are struggling with miniscule security budgets, a new report finds.
US OPM breach was preventable
12 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe US House Oversight committee has found that the Office of Personnel Management could have potentially prevented last year's major data leak of government employee information with even basic security controls.
US appoints first federal CISO
12 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe Obama Administration has appointed the White House's first federal CISO, charged with shaping cybersecurity policies and practices across government.
ADF to get $500m electronic warfare boost
08 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingAround three-quarters of the $500m budget for the government's new Electronic Warfare Operations Support for Maritime and Land Forces project will be spent locally.
Closing in on hackers
06 September, 2016 by David BraueEven though cybercriminals try to hide on the 'dark web', increasingly powerful analytics engines are helping law enforcement agencies find them.
NT Police wins iAward for face recognition project
02 September, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingWatch House, a system developed by NT Police and NEC to help rapidly identify suspects brought into custody using facial recognition, has won a 2016 iAward from the AIIA.
Immigration completes $50m SmartGates rollout
29 August, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe Department of Immigration and Border Protection has completed the deployment of 83 biometric automated departure SmartGates across all eight international airports.
CIA CIO calls AWS's cloud a "godsend"
16 August, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe US CIA is "very happy" with the agency's experiences with migrating workloads from legacy hardware to AWS cloud infrastructure, according to the intelligence agency's CIO Sherrill Nicely.
Are 'digital embassies' the answer?
01 August, 2016 by Al Blake, Principal Analyst, Ovum’s Australian Government practice | Supplied by: Ovum Pty Ltd'Digital embassies' — where data physically hosted in one country is legally regarded as being in another — could help overcome tricky jurisdictional issues.
Obama establishes cyber response hierarchy
27 July, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingUS President Barack Obama has clarified the federal government agencies in charge of both asset responses and threat responses to cyberthreats against the nation.
Digital identities — trust but verify
25 July, 2016 by David BraueAs its own identity crisis bites, Australia's federal government is mustering support for a security overhaul.
Turnbull appoints cybersecurity minister
19 July, 2016 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's new cabinet includes the freshly created role of Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security, and Dan Tehan has been appointed to the position.
