The nation’s top spy wants to be as open as possible with the public about the operations of his agency which is undergoing a “revolution”.
Almost half of Australia’s top 20 universities have no protection in place for hackers impersonating their domain to trick people into giving them sensitive information.
The bank said it was treating the matter with “the highest priority,and acting with urgency”,as it investigates the breach.
The statement represented the US government's first formal attempt to assign a possible motive for the widespread cyber attacks on federal agencies.
The President remains silent as even the US National Nuclear Security Administration,which maintains the nuclear weapons stockpile,is hacked.
A number of staff email accounts and some university systems were compromised in a phishing attack last month,the acting vice-chancellor revealed.
One university was found to be at high risk of the theft of sensitive data,within days of a major breach at ANU in Canberra.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne has warned that the internet and cyber security are now so central to modern nations that serious hacking incidents could escalate into war between countries.
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The web is a frontier in a hardening confrontation between the autocratic world and the democratic one.
Former privacy commissioners have called for an end to the exemption in the wake of a major cyber attack.