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Hunter to hunted: China hit by rise in cyberattacks
Cyberattacks shutting down access to Chinese websites have ramped up significantly in the first part of 2024.
- Andrew Tillett
Five V boots up $400m payday at Canberra cybersecurity biz Penten
Houlihan Lokey’s appointment shows Five V is hopeful of snagging a North America buyer.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
AT&T hack undermines US national security, experts say
The telco giant said a hacker had compromised its network and stolen records of calls and text messages from nearly all of its 100 million wireless customers.
- Ryan Gallagher
The unmasking of Chinese hacking group APT40
The group that hit the headlines this week is just one part of a vast hacking machine that operates far beyond China.
- Jessica Sier
- Exclusive
- China relations
New ‘alliance’ calls out China’s bad cyber behaviour
Months of behind-the-scenes work helped convince Japan and South Korea to join an Australian-led statement slamming China over cyberattacks.
- Andrew Tillett
This Month
- Opinion
- Cyber warfare
Asian allies key to our cyberdefence against China
Japan and South Korea have for the first time joined Five Eyes allies led by Australia in directly calling out Chinese cyberattacks, but more can be done.
- Alastair MacGibbon
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Where do Australia’s China ties go after hack?
The public outing only raises the question of where Australia takes the matter from here, and what it expects China to do.
- The AFR View
Who are the Chinese hackers named by Australia?
They are based in China’s south and have allegedly operated via a front company called the Hainan Xiandun Technology Development Co.
- Nick Bonyhady
Labor under pressure to confront China over hacking
The government is under pressure to confront Beijing after its main counterintelligence agency named a hacking group linked to China’s Ministry of State Security.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy and Nick Bonyhady
‘We know nothing’: Media blasts information void in privacy reform
Uncertainty about the Albanese government’s new privacy laws threatens billions in advertising, with one data firm urging clients to pause online targeting.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
June
Cyber protection boosted in critical healthcare sector
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil is rolling out a new intelligence centre as part of efforts to upgrade cyber safeguards for healthcare and hospitals.
- Tom McIlroy
- Tech & Telco Winner
- Women in Leadership
‘What she’s doing is shaping not just Telstra, but Australia’
Cybersecurity boss Narelle Devine, the winner of the Tech & Telco category, uses lessons from a decade in the Navy to fight off international hacking attacks.
- Tess Bennett
April
- Analysis
- Cyber warfare
Did one guy just stop a huge cyberattack?
A 38-year-old software engineer at Microsoft inadvertently found a backdoor hidden in a piece of software that was a possible prelude to a major cyberattack.
- Kevin Roose
March
Inside Australia’s turbocharged battle against hackers
Australian Signals Directorate boss Rachel Noble says the agency’s $5 billion threat-sharing partnership with Microsoft is a “force multiplier”.
- Max Mason
February
- Opinion
- Cybersecurity
The cyber lessons Australia still has not learnt
Big data breaches have highlighted cyber vulnerabilities to Australians, but there are two crucial points that are getting lost in the public post-incident brouhaha.
- James Turner
September 2023
Scale of HWL Ebsworth hack revealed: 2.5m files, 65 agencies
Hackers have published about 1 million of the documents on the dark web, with some victims yet to be notified that their information was compromised in the April hack.
- Edmund Tadros
Australia to lean on Quad to fix ‘wantonly unsafe’ software
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil wants Australia’s partnership with the US, Japan and India to force companies to stop shipping products with flaws.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
- Analysis
Why Australia is losing the battle for cyber resilience
The Australian Financial Review Cyber Summit showed a desire for national cyber resilience, but without change we won’t get there.
- James Turner
The tougher regime for cyber threats that directors must heed
Boards face a tension between government calls to rapidly share information after a hack while fearing scrutiny from ASIC and cyber-related class actions.
- Updated
- Nick Bonyhady
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- Cybersecurity
ASIC to target boards, execs for cyber failures
The corporate regulator has put Australian business on notice that it will begin seeking punishments for hacked companies that hadn’t put sufficient protections in place.
- Updated
- Paul Smith and Ronald Mizen
How cyber criminals use ChatGPT to make better scams
AI is helping criminals compose phishing emails and could be weaponised for much worse cyber crime. But it will also help to detect threats and create defences.
- Updated
- John Davidson
Sack staff who repeatedly click on dodgy emails: IT boss
Teaching all staff about cybersecurity is crucial , experts say. But what do you do with staff who refuse to learn?
- Updated
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Share information and manage cyber risks transparently
The string of attacks has been a wake-up call across business and government about increasing cyber vigilance, as reflected at The Australian Financial Review Cyber Summit
- The AFR View
Why critical infrastructure owners should think like hackers
Critical infrastructure operators need to adopt an adversarial mindset and be far more vigilant for threats, especially from supply chains.
- Tom Burton
