Do intelligence agencies need restructuring for the digital disinformation age?
The focus needs to change and more oversight is needed, but digital skulduggery won't replace the need for human spies.
The focus needs to change and more oversight is needed, but digital skulduggery won't replace the need for human spies.
Hacking virus research labs to steal their secret recipes is just industrial espionage. But cyber attacks against vaccine production and distribution would be a war crime -- if we were at war.
Cyber conflict isn't about cyberwar, says The Grugq. It's about a global cyber power struggle that never ends, where even K-pop bands can influence nation states.
As analysts call for a review of Australia's intelligence agency staffing, aimed at increasing diversity, CyberCX sets up a cyber scholarship for women.
Finally, after 11 long months, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has delivered a drab and inward-looking cybersecurity plan and has complained about encryption yet again.
Both Labor and Australia's Independent National Security Legislation Monitor have proposed judicial approvals before cops and spooks can access encrypted communications, but the Department of Home Affairs isn't keen.
Can lawmakers continue to ignore the well-founded criticisms of the ever-increasing powers given to law enforcement and intelligence agencies? Can agencies continue to be so secretive?
Why bother with messy official approvals, tedious legal and privacy assessments, or even ethics when cops use facial recognition? 'Feel free to run wild with your searches,' says Clearview.
A key goal of an election is to prove to the losing party that they did, in fact, lose, but that's a really hard problem to solve electronically.
New Zealand's inquiry found YouTube and Facebook were central to the right-wing mass murderer's radicalisation, but detecting the lone-wolf attacker would have required connecting dots they didn't have.