The recent CrowdStrike outage was not just a technical hiccup; it was a seismic tremor that exposed the brittle foundations on which Australia’s digital economy stands. A faulty security update, a false positive— and suddenly thousands of …
Japan in the past believed it was relatively safe from malign information operations, thanks to the linguistic barrier and a generally high level of public trust in traditional media. But in the wake of some …
The Albanese government has unveiled its third budget. Our experts across defence, cybersecurity and technology, the Pacific, climate and critical minerals give their first impressions of what the budget has to offer—and what’s missing. …
At least six Australian parliamentarians from both major parties have been targeted by Chinese state-sponsored hackers from the notorious APT31 group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has announced. The revelation follows announcements by the alliance—an …
Australia’s 2023 cybersecurity strategy makes clear that most of the things we need to do to protect ourselves in cyberspace are essentially defensive. The strategy is usefully organised according to six ‘shields’. But sometimes we …




