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Australia is coming under sustained cyber attack by a ‘state-based’ actor, says Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as hackers try to exploit vulnerabilities in business and government software systems.
The MyGov website ground to a halt this week as thousands of people tried to access welfare support. As a result, long queues popped up at Centrelink offices across the country.
As the number of ‘internet of things’ devices expands rapidly, so do security vulnerabilities to homes, businesses, governments and the internet as as whole.
The very first cyberattack clogged up the nascent internet, halting digital communications. Now much bigger, the internet is still largely open to – and suffering regularly from – similar attacks.
A new report highlights the worrying trends confronting security professionals – from more sophisticated hacking methods to hack-for-hire products and targeted attacks on tourism websites.
As more physical objects are becoming digitalised, it is leading to greater national security risks.
Cybercriminals are using cloud-based services, much like regular businesses. A new study reveals important lessons for the future of fighting cybercrime.
‘Denial of service’ cyberattacks are increasingly used to shut down websites. New research reveals that 911 call centers are vulnerable to the threat as well.
Here are some things Australia should do to protect itself from an increasingly weaponised internet.
The evidence the Census servers suffered a DDoS attack is weak. A simpler explanation is that they buckled under load of Australians filling out their Census forms as asked.
Even without a DDoS attack, the 2016 Census may have failed due to the ABS making a rudimentary statistical error.
Despite assuring Australians its systems were load tested and secure, the Census site went offline at a crucial time. Could the ABS have avoided such an embarrasing failure?
How the internet has made us terrifyingly vulnerable.
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Security Researcher, Associate Professor in Resilient Systems, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Director, McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, Auburn University
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Optus Cyber Chair and Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Presidential Administrative Fellow, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, George Washington University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Reader in International Security Security, King's College London
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Head of R&D, Cyber Security Research Center; Chief Scientist, Morphisec endpoint security, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Director of Europol; Honorary Fellow, Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Research Professor of Public Policy; Director of Operations, Maryland Global Initiative in Cybersecurity; Senior Research Associate, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland
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Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney