I really wish they would name the 'sophisticated state actor', I don't understand why they don't make that part public. I'm guessing it's either Russia or China, but I still wish they would name the state actor.
We (the business I work for) had ASIO come around, indicate that they should be meeting with top level execs, then claim in that meeting that they are aware that an external sovereign actor has hacked our network and is inside stealing our data etc.
They then refused to answer any questions about how they know this, when it happened, where it happened, how long they've known or anything AT ALL useful or precise or accurate about how we could protect ourselves.
All it did was cause rampant distrust in every direction.
I have a very low opinion of these bastards and deeply suspect them of sewing FUD deliberately in businesses.
Convenient timing considering the biggest state and federal election are coming within 2 months.
It's also a bit rich from a Parliament which only had recently voted to water down cybersecurity in Australia and throw the tech industry under a bus so they could pretend to be tough on crime when it's more about outing political leaks and whistleblowers.
We'd hate to leave you unprotected over Christmas, so we're going to pass these crazy laws to secretly hack all your machines, for security! You can have complete trust in us, we're the government!
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 39.2 ms ] threadMaybe they lost the specifics of that pesky Paladin contract as collateral damage from the hackers' actions.
We (the business I work for) had ASIO come around, indicate that they should be meeting with top level execs, then claim in that meeting that they are aware that an external sovereign actor has hacked our network and is inside stealing our data etc.
They then refused to answer any questions about how they know this, when it happened, where it happened, how long they've known or anything AT ALL useful or precise or accurate about how we could protect ourselves.
All it did was cause rampant distrust in every direction.
I have a very low opinion of these bastards and deeply suspect them of sewing FUD deliberately in businesses.
It's also a bit rich from a Parliament which only had recently voted to water down cybersecurity in Australia and throw the tech industry under a bus so they could pretend to be tough on crime when it's more about outing political leaks and whistleblowers.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/12/austr...
Ooops, our pants fell down again!