Turnbull orders Cyber Security cohesion, hacking paybacks

MacGibbon gets powerful new Special Advisor role.

21 April, 2016

Australia’s first Cyber budget?

Data deluge needs coherent management.

15 June, 2015

Abbott calls in Britain’s former top cyber spook

Former GCHQ chief Iain-Lobban on cyber review panel.

20 April, 2015

PM orders urgent national cyber security strategy review

Report in six months, but expert advisers and focus raise eyebrows.

27 November, 2014

ASIO accidently bugged itself says expanding spy watchdog

New surveillance powers increase workload.

16 October, 2014

Intelligence agency hiring too slow amid heightened terror alert

Intelligence agencies flooded with information

16 September, 2014

Warning of one public service job an hour axed from Canberra

By Julian Bajkowski Commonwealth employees have been warned that one public service job an hour will be axed under the Coalition’s plans to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy by 12,000 full time positions as unions and the Opposition tap into growing fears in agencies that forced redundancies will be needed to make up […]

22 October, 2013

New bids to lock-up the Taxman

By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Taxation Office is best known for banging up tax cheats, but the Commonwealth’s chief revenue raiser has just announced it’s now officially on the hunt for a national locksmith to secure its sprawling estate of 51 offices across all states and territories. The call for national locksmith services is likely […]

4 April, 2013

Logo scam hits Australian Crime Commission

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The Australian Crime Commission’s (ACC) has followed hot on the heels of the Australian Federal Police as the latest security agency to become the target of a brazen online scam that hits unwitting computer users with fake correspondence that brandishes an hijacked official logo as bait to steal funds. […]

30 October, 2012

ASIO warns of internet terror recruitment

By Julian Bajkowski The head of Australia’s domestic spy agency has revealed that internet-addicted loners and individuals with far right-wing and white-supremacist views have escalated as an area of concern for potential terrorist activity. In a carefully nuanced speech to the Security In Government conference in Canberra, the Director General of the Australian Security Intelligence […]

5 September, 2012