My year undercover with Australia's Islamic radicals

Stuff.co.nz: "One journalist spent a year undercover in Australia's radical Islamic networks."



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Andrew Wilkie and the Chilcot inquiry

The Saturday Paper: "Intelligence officer turned whistleblower and politician Andrew Wilkie is calling for Australia to conduct its own version of the Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq."



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ASIO to swap spies with Indonesia to combat ISIS

ASIO to swap spies with Indonesia to combat ISIS: "Australia will exchange spies with Indonesia in a bid to confront the growing scourge of Islamic State-inspired terrorism in the region."



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Satrap Guilt: Australia, Iraq and the Chilcot Inquiry

Satrap Guilt: Australia, Iraq and the Chilcot Inquiry: "One such figure was Andrew Wilkie, now a returned independent member of the Australian parliament. Having been an intelligence officer within the Office of National Assessments and subsequent whistleblower on the dubious intelligence practices he bore witness to, the Tasmanian MP insisted that Australia needed its own variant of Chilcot."



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Poor intelligence just one factor in Iraq involvement

theAustralian: "It concluded that the Office of National Assessments and the Defence Intelligence Organisation along with the rest of the international community failed to judge accurately the extent and the nature of Iraq’s WMD programs"



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Chilcot report, Andrew Bolt and Andrew Wilkie leak case

Crikey: "The release of the Chilcot report into the British government’s decision to join the United States-led invasion of Iraq took almost as long to deliver as the battle to investigate one of Australia’s most highly classified leaks — to Andrew Bolt."



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Woodside drives to 'demystify' cybersecurity in operations

Security - iTnews: "At that time, The Australian reported that resources firms including Woodside were working with the Australian Signals Directorate to try to curb attacks against resources infrastructure."



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We take full responsibility: Aust on Iraq

The West Australian: "Mr Wilkie, who resigned from the Office of National Assessments in protest over the government's decision to join the war, renewed his call for a third and broader Australian inquiry into the conflict."



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Federal Government IT Professionals Overconfident in Insider Threat Detection

Yahoo Finance: "Tripwire’s study is based on seven key security controls required by a wide variety of compliance regulations, including PCI DSS, SOX, NERC CIP, MAS TRM, NIST 800-53, CIS Top 20 and IRS 1075. These controls also align with the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recommendations and international guidance, such as the Australian Signals Directorate’s Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions."



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Six Moments Of Schadenfreude For Progressives After The 2016 Election - New Matilda

 New Matilda: "With the Senate likely to be dominated by a centre-right and openly bigoted crossbench, progressive voters have been feeling a little blue since the results started to roll in on Saturday."



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Hopeless Vic agencies have two years to hit infosec best practice

The Register: "Government agencies in the Australian state of Victoria will have two years to move from near ground zero to stand up fully-fledged and updated information security, risk, and governance policies."



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IBM launches security centre

theAustralian: "Global technology giant IBM is setting up a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in Canberra with former AFP assistant commissioner Kevin Zuccato to lead the facility."



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PM launches Woomera test range upgrade

news.com.au: "When it comes to trying out advanced weaponry, wide open space is necessary but so too is minimal electromagnetic interference and the Woomera test range possesses both attributes in abundance."



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ISIS loses Fallujah

news.com.au: "ISLAMIC State has lost a major strategic city after the fall of Fallujah, but the “West will need to sleep with one eye open” with the terror group thirsty for revenge."



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Healthcare not so healthy in preventing cyber attacks

iTWire "Cybercriminals are attacking the healthcare industry more than any other. Why? It’s a gold mine of privately identifiable information usually running on older, unpatched versions of Windows and ripe for being exploited through ransomware or data breaches."



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Milton Osborne

The News Lens 關鍵評論網: "Dr. Milton Osborne is a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute. He has been associated with Southeast Asia for more than 50 years since being posted to the Australian embassy in Phnom Penh in 1959. He has held academic positions in Australia, the U.K., U.S. and Singapore. He was a consultant to the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees in relation to the Cambodian refugee problem, and served as Head of the Asia Branch of the Office of National Assessments."



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Australia's Defence Department tips AU$12M to seat spies

 The Register: "The Department of Defence has tipped A$12 million (£6.1 million, US$9.1 million) into an information security facility to attract new blood by housing signals spooks alongside Australian National University academics."



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Defence and ANU join forces

ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "The Department of Defence has announced $12 million in funding for a new purpose-built facility at the Australian National University (ANU) to shore up Australia's cyber security."



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Coalition plans to install Frances Adamson at DFAT

theAustralian: "Observers say Ms Adamson’s postings in Taiwan and Hong Kong have given her a more rounded, and perhaps more critical, appreciation of China than is generally the case for China specialists who have had multiple appointments in mainland China itself."



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AFP release report into who leaked top secret report on Iraq War to Andrew Bolt

theAge: "Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie has strongly rejected what he claims is offensive and unfounded "innuendo" levelled against him in a 12-year old Australian Federal Police report into the leaking of an intelligence document on the Iraq War to conservative columnist Andrew Bolt in 2003."



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