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TAFE NSW Takes On New Online Cyber Security Training Role

SYDNEY: The NSW Cyber Security Innovation Node (NSWCSIN) and TAFE NSW have launched an online cyber security training program comprising nine industry-aligned online training modules designed to meet current and emerging industry needs.  Officials say it will provide new and existing workers with the specialist skills they need to succeed in the growing cyber security … Read more

Indian Spy Scandal Reveals Obscure Cyber Firm

LONDON/WASHINGTON: A little-known Indian IT company has offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 e-mail accounts over seven years. According to Reuters, New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the US.  BellTroX’s hacks in the US currently under … Read more

ASD Spooks Launch New Push To Hit Offshore Cyber-Crims

CANBERRA: Cyber experts from the spooky Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) are cracking down on offshore cybercrims who have been targeting Australian households and businesses, according to Defence Minister Linda Reynolds. In a media statement yesterday, Reynolds also said that ASD has also been engaging the telecoms companies to block and take down malicious Web sites. … Read more

Parliament Hack Report Not Public

The public will probably not see a Federal Government report on what’s been labelled a state-sponsored cyberattack against the parliamentary computing network earlier this year. Senate president Scott Ryan yesterday told a Senate estimates hearing that, after reading the “rather technical” report for the first time on Friday, he is now awaiting a “plain language … Read more

Chinese Attacks Penetrating Oz Government Nets: ABC

A number of sensitive Federal Government and corporate networks – including some holding highly confidential plans for a geostationary communications satellite – have been penetrated by sophisticated cyber attacks, according to an ABC Four Corners investigation. Austrade and the Defence Department’s elite Defence Science Technology Group, have both suffered significant cyber infiltrations by hackers based … Read more

Oz Organisations Report 63 Data Breaches In Just Six Weeks

Australian organisations reported 63 data breaches in the first six weeks of the Turnbull Government’s mandatory notification system, under which  all major organisations must promptly report all breaches. It that rate continues, Australia can expect to see more than 500 breaches reported across Australia by the end of the year. But that number could rise significantly … Read more

Canberra Calls For Volunteers For New Cyber Reserve Team

The Australian Government is looking to establish a “Cyber Reserve” of private-sector computing specialists who could pitch in if a  major cyber attack targets Australia’s critical infrastructure, such as airports, the national electricity grid, or the military. Australia’s Cyber Security minister Dan Tehan told a National Press Club luncheon meeting yesterday that plans for the … Read more