Last night, the national census ended in disaster, after the Australian Bureau of Statistics website crashed, leaving millions of frustrated people unable to lodge their census forms. The bureau's chief statistician, David Kalisch, says the site was taken down after four separate cyber attacks from overseas. The federal government had earlier dismissed concerns about the...

Many Australians were unable to complete the Census on August 9 due to the Census website failing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) chief statistician has blamed a deliberate ‘denial of service attack’ for the failure. Like many government information systems, the Census site was outsourced to an external contractor: IBM. As well as writing...

Introduction Socially-engineered emails containing malicious attachments and embedded links have been observed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) being used in targeted cyber intrusions against organisations. This document has been developed by ASD in collaboration with local and international partners to provide mitigation strategies for the security risk posed by malicious emails. It should be...

In a society that’s now reliant on cyberspace for everyday life, and when everything from cars, electricity grids and dams to weapons systems is connected to a network, the potential effects of malicious or aggressive actions in cyberspace warrant some justified concern. This paper examines the application of deterrence concepts to cyberspace, discusses cybersecurity implications...

This article asks what the economic argument is for and against privacy, or managing data flows. It argues that privacy has a role to play in whether data will be used in a way which changes the allocation of economic surplus, or whether data will be used in a way that will increase the total...