The Weekly Cybers #44
Australia’s War on Social Media continues, with platforms to be hit with duty-of-care responsibilities as well as age restrictions, but there’s also plenty more.
The Weekly Cybers #43
Digital platforms are the target again this week, with under-16s to be banned from social media, and an anti-scam plan that shares the blame with banks, telcos, and more.
The Weekly Cybers #42
Victorian court recognises a right to privacy, NACC suffers a blow to its credibility, and more.
The Weekly Cybers #41
Parliamentary inquiry recommends a digital affairs ministry, internet industry proposes a code for adult content, and more.
The Weekly Cybers #40
A short edition this week with news of Australia’s first AI-generated political ad, changes to My Health Record, plus social media, telco risk, AI, and rogue robot vacuum cleaners.
The Weekly Cybers #39
Australia’s massive new cybersecurity legislation package, a move to keep NBN in public hands, the continuing push for social media age bans but with hints of a rollback strategy, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #38
A plethora of stories ranging from shoddy AI and unethical practices with medical data to cables under the Pacific, digital driver licences, and cybercrime.
The Weekly Cybers #37
A Federal Court win for FoI, a rebranding for Australia’s digital ID, Optus outage leads to various changes, yet more on social media age restrictions, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #36
Australian cops and their global colleagues take down the Ghost encrypted messaging network, a robodebt ringleader has a great big sook, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #35
What a week! A burst of legislation from privacy to misinformation to hate speech, an anti-scam “plan”, Meta gets caught out, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #34
Government proposes “mandatory guardrails” for high-risk AI, ASIO hints at using the big stick on encrypted chats, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #33
Defence to get $11 billion IT upgrade, “Twiggy” Forrest takes on Meta with an early win, more sookage about the News Media Bargaining Code from both sides, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #32
Australia and New Zealand agree that a cyber attack could trigger the ANZUS Treaty, the government blows $340 million on the abandoned GovERP project, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #31
Shorten announces a digital ID Trust Exchange but it’s just a proof-of-concept with many unanswered questions, public servants get a new AI policy, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #30
Lots of small items this week, because we’re in the calm before the storm of Parliament’s spring sitting — except for myGov fraud, Centrepay, and some routine reports.
The Weekly Cybers #29
A cabinet reshuffle gives Tony Burke the cybers, the government ramps up its cyber rhetoric in the fight against scams and ransomware while its own report card looks poor, talk of a new Cyber Security Act, and much more.
The Weekly Cybers #28
Some thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage, another busy week for the eSafety Commissioner, a few AI stories (of course), and more.
The Weekly Cybers #27
MediSecure hack affects 12.9 million Australians but now the money has run out, and a range of smaller stories fill out a relatively quiet week.
The Weekly Cybers #26
Australia and allies blame China for APT40 cyber espionage, dating apps agree to a code of conduct, and experts ask whether Australia needs an infowar militia.
The Weekly Cybers #25
Amazon scores $2 billion for a top secret data cloud, online child safety gets more attention (yet again), and much more.
