Australian Signals Directorate updates ‘Top 4’ security guides

Computerworld:

"The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has updated a number of its guides to implementing its ‘Top 4’ security strategies for mitigating targeted cyber intrusions."



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Trust a vital asset as NZ faces future

 NZ Herald News:

"To give just one example, one of the currently neglected areas is "incidentally gathered information". Electronic surveillance tends to "vacuum up" vast amounts of information. Most is undoubtedly discarded by the likes of the GCSB but currently it can be sent to its partners in the Five-Eyes network who can do what they want with it."



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Rejecting a Chinese bid for land is in 'the national interest'?

The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):

"We were told Australia was open for business, and yet when a Chinese group bid on S Kidman & Co. estate, Scott Morrison stood in the way and gave us little more than a hazy "national interest" explanation, writes Chris Berg."



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The government is the real threat

Red Flag:

"The Australian government has not only participated in creating this global surveillance regime but also carries out its own surveillance in Australia and the region. In 2013, it was revealed that the Australian Signals Directorate had attempted to monitor the phone calls of the Indonesian president and several senior officials."



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