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Australian former cyberspook slotted for selling hacking tools to Russians
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (284+ words) Get full access to essential reading for Australia's public service for 25% off your first year. Congratulations! Your registration was successful and we have logged you in. Welcome to The Mandarin. Defence & Veterans" Affairs Intelligence Agencies / Police / Crime An Australian man…...
ASD launches malware analysis freeware
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (294+ words) Get full access to essential reading for Australia's public service for 25% off your first year. Congratulations! Your registration was successful and we have logged you in. Welcome to The Mandarin. Intelligence Agencies / Police / Crime The Australian Signals Directorate has not-so-quietly…...
NSW Crime Commission chief becomes Canberra's intelligence toecutter
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (273+ words) Get full access to essential reading for Australia's public service for 25% off your first year. Congratulations! Your registration was successful and we have logged you in. Welcome to The Mandarin. Intelligence Agencies / Police / Crime The head of the most powerful…...
Incoming ASIC chair brings 'deep' litigation experience
3+ week, 2+ day ago (242+ words) Congratulations! Your registration was successful and we have logged you in. Welcome to The Mandarin. Treasury / Tax / Accounting Sarah Court, the incoming head of Australia's corporate watchdog, will bring a "strong record in enforcement" to ASIC, outgoing chair Joe Longo…...
Services Australia's mainframe guru honoured for stabilising critical systems
3+ week, 3+ day ago (207+ words) Congratulations! Your registration was successful and we have logged you in. Welcome to The Mandarin. Peter Cottrell has received a Public Service Medal (PSM) for outstanding public service to Australia's critical IT infrastructure. Longevity and systemic memory are persistently undervalued…...
Why external risk now belongs on every board agenda
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (246+ words) Congratulations! Your registration was successful and we have logged you in. Welcome to The Mandarin. Treasury / Tax / Accounting External shocks have always existed. What has changed is how quickly they now convert into balance-sheet consequences, cancelled capital programs, disrupted approvals,…...
Home Affairs checks agency cyber homework
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (1030+ words) Commonwealth agencies have until the end of the week to uninstall software deemed an "unacceptable security" risk to the government. Home Affairs secretary Stephanie Foster signed a direction last week requiring non-corporate Commonwealth entities to "identify and remove all existing…...
Forensics called in over Reconstruction Authority AI data breach
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (593+ words) The NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA) has put its hand up to a significant data-breach incident, after a contractor pasted a sensitive spreadsheet into ChatGPT. The state recovery agency on Sunday revealed "a former contractor of the RA uploaded data containing…...
Government’s $475 million figure to settle robodebt class action
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (564+ words) Get full access to essential reading for Australia's public service. Compensation for the harms caused to eligible group members of a class action against the government over the illegal and immoral robodebt scheme is within reach, with Attorney-General Michelle Rowland…...
NSW creates new Office for Artificial Intelligence
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (443+ words) Get full access to essential reading for Australia's public service. The New South Wales government has appointed its core team to oversee the introduction of artificial intelligence into the state's public service, creating a new Office for Artificial Intelligence. "The…...