How to survive a cyber attack

How to survive a cyber attack

Identity theft costs Australians more than $1.6 billion annually,but there are things you can do to avoid becoming a victim.

  • byNina Hendy andYan Zhuang

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The doco that prompted viewers to abandon social media

The doco that prompted viewers to abandon social media

Be worried. Be very worried. The Great Hack has been one of the most talked-about TV documentaries in recent years,and with good reason.

  • byGreg Callaghan
The hunger game:Or how I learned to start worrying and love the cod
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Defence

The hunger game:Or how I learned to start worrying and love the cod

Fish helped Germany lose two world wars. Today,much of the West's reliance on fragile food networks leaves it even more vulnerable.

  • byJohn Birmingham
Important role for government in online safety
Opinion
Opinion

Important role for government in online safety

Our eSafety Commissioner has developed the world’s first Safety by Design initiative,which sets out principles for industry adoption.

  • byPaul Fletcher
Ursula didn't know what cyber flashing was until the day at the museum

Ursula didn't know what cyber flashing was until the day at the museum

Apple is in the gun for the rise of cyber flashing - the anonymous sending of explicit images to strangers via their iPhones'AirDrop feature.

  • byNicole Precel
Tired of #$%&passwords? Single sign-on could be your saviour

Tired of #$%&passwords? Single sign-on could be your saviour

The experience we know as password hell could soon be radically changed for the better.

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Spy game:Inside the fight to beat hackers who know no borders

Spy game:Inside the fight to beat hackers who know no borders

A police raid on a journalist's home sparked a press freedom firestorm. But what's happened to the actual government proposal that was at the heart of the top-secret leak?

  • byDavid Wroe
'Grey zone'tactics:Australia vulnerable to political warfare,Defence Chief warns

'Grey zone'tactics:Australia vulnerable to political warfare,Defence Chief warns

Political warfare,including cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns,are a form of masked aggression - and calibrated to fall short of requiring a response.

  • byDavid Wroe
Apple,Google,WhatsApp condemn a British spy agency proposal to access encrypted messages

Apple,Google,WhatsApp condemn a British spy agency proposal to access encrypted messages

Australia has already passed contentious laws to allow security agencies access to encrypted communications.

  • byTaylor Telford
'The greatest threat we face':Cyber security tsar quits with a warning

'The greatest threat we face':Cyber security tsar quits with a warning

Alastair MacGibbon,the face of cybersecurity for federal authorities,is quitting his role and has declared cyber attacks our"greatest existential threat”.

  • byDavid Wroe
Bank looks for bigger ideas to help small business with cyber crime

Bank looks for bigger ideas to help small business with cyber crime

National Australia Bank is reviewing ways it can assess data it has collated about when and how its customers have been subject to cyber-attacks and those customers which are impervious to such ambushes.

  • bySarah Danckert