Higher security level coming to govt’s certified cloud list

Computerworld:

"Services certified to be used with information classified at the PROTECTED level are expected to be added to the government’s Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL) by the of the year, according to the Department of Defence."



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After Snowden, there is clear evidence of a paradigmatic shift in journalist-source relations

Comments from media industry experts:

 "Until Edward Snowden’s documents began to be published in June 2013 – again by the Guardian – no one other than the intelligence agencies and a handful of cabinet ministers knew the sheer scale of personal information that was being collected by GCHQ as part of the National Security Agency’s ‘Five Eyes’ network."



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Election 2016: AFP and Innovation Dept fail cybersecurity test

afr.com:

"The Australian National Audit Office, which conducted the audit, found the AFP and the Innovation Department did not comply with the "Top 4" security strategies recommended by the secretive electronic spy agency, the Australian Signals Directorate, that would deter 85 per cent of cyber crooks"



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Australian Federal Police ordered to reveal its report into Iraq war leak

new.com.au: "The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has ordered the Australia Federal Police to make public its report on the affair at 9am, June 17.
It is expected to reveal what police knew and suspected about the leaking, 13 years ago, of a top-secret intelligence paper written for the Office of National Assessment by Andrew Wilkie, now an MP."



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