All eyes are on Clare O’Neil as she heads to Washington for her first meeting of home affairs ministers from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations.
“It does appear at this point that this incident originated beyond our borders,” Alberto Carvalho,the superintendent of the school district,said.
As a child Rachel Noble always thought her father was an engineer – the nation’s top cyber spy had no idea he was actually a spy.
Russia’s decision not to turn Ukraine dark could be motivated by an understanding of what the Five Eyes could do to Russia in response,Australia’s top cyber spy says.
In its centrepiece defence budget announcement,the government will make the largest single investment in the Australian Signals Directorate in the agency’s history.
Employees of Russian agencies are accused of installing malware on more than 17,000 devices in oil,gas and nuclear power plants,utilities and power transmission companies.
Such a decision could draw Australia into a retaliatory American cyber assault on Vladimir Putin’s regime,drawing Australia directly into any confrontation.
The Ukrainian government asked for help with cyber security. These volunteers formed a makeshift “cyberwar unit” and set to work on Russian officials and websites.
Cyber attacks now feature in most countries’ war plans. In Ukraine,the world may see what that means in action.
In the final part of our special series on Australia’s preparedness for war,we explore cyber spies,criminal hackers and the threat of counter-attacks in space.
A US official said Russia has already positioned a group of operatives to conduct “a false-flag operation” in eastern Ukraine,as a pretext for an invasion.