This week one of the largest ransomware incidents to date, ‘WannaCrypt’ or ‘WannaCry’, affected the operations of at least 300,000 machines worldwide, encrypting and locking victims out until a Bitcoin ransom equivalent to US$300 was …
AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin revealed last week that an AFP officer had, in the course of an investigation, accessed the call record metadata of a journalist without a warrant, putting the error down to poor …
A flurry of activity on the cyber-policy front has accompanied the one year anniversary of Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy, which was launched by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on 21 April 2016. The Australian Cyber Security …
In big news this week for our Kiwi neighbours, New Zealand opened its first national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). CERT NZ, a deliverable of New Zealand’s 2015 Cyber Security Strategy, has been established within …
The Beat Transnational crime and the Panama Papers The Panama Papers had their first birthday on 3 April and most pundits are thankful for the public attention the leaks brought. However, as the Global Financial …