Govt plans year-end launch for cyber security centre - Security - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

"The federal government’s long-awaited Australian Cyber Security Centre will be fully operational in late 2014 - almost two years after it was first announced."



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Prime Minister Tony Abbott to meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | News.com.au

TONY Abbott will try to repair relations with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a surprise stopover on his way to France this week."



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#OpAustralia, Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) website brought down by Indonesian Hackers | TechWorm

"A few days earlier Techworm had brought the news of #OpAustralia when the Indonesian Hackers took out 170 Australian websites ending with .au domain.  "



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Australian Spies Are Facilitating The ←

"For illustration, CIA functionaries likewise decided to change the description of the targeted facility to a diplomatic post from consulate. appearing at the outcomes of the original Sept. Republicans promise to gain election-year grip on the number."



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Mobile security lessons from Treasury - PC Advisor

"Managing a fleet of iPhones that used containerisation to separate The Treasury data from employees' personal information has been a journey of mistakes and lessons for CIO Peter Alexander."



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Michael Kirby and the spies who loved him - ABC New South Wales - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

"An ASIO file was opened on a 12 year old Michael Kirby after he was taken to the zoo by his grandmother's second husband, the National Treasurer of the Communist Party."



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Spies reported on activities of four-year-old 'propagandist' News The Sydney Morning Herald World

 "Decades since they were last known to bother the authorities, some of Australia's most famous "radicals" are getting together for a knees-up."



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Staff dispute fuels speculation over performance of Defence Minister David Johnston

"The prime minister's office has hired Simeon Gilding to work as a senior foreign affairs and trade adviser to Prime Minister Tony Abbott after a falling out between Mr Gilding and Senator Johnston."



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David Johnston wins the battle of chiefs of staff | The Australian

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Mr Gilding, a former deputy director of the Australian Signals Directorate and before that a diplomat, is believed likely to ­return to a senior role within the Defence Department."



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ASIO spying on you: accessing your Dirty Secrets record | Crikey

"They knew who your girlfriend or boyfriend was. They knew where you parked your car. They stole your address book, they followed you to the zoo. They listened to you at meetings and wrote down which bottle shop you turned into."



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ASIO needs stronger powers to crack down on Australians in Syria, former anti-terrorism law watchdog says | ABC Radio Australia

"The former watchdog for Australia's anti-terrorism laws has appealed to Tony Abbott to give the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) stronger powers to crack down on the flow of "dangerous" Australians travelling to fight in the Syrian civil war."



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Mobile security lessons from Treasury - CIO

"Managing a fleet of iPhones that used containerisation to separate The Treasury data from employees’ personal information has been a journey of mistakes and lessons for CIO Peter Alexander."



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Attack on police website was part of a bigger campaign

"A cyber attack that brought down the Australian Federal Police website late last year was part of a wider series of attacks on the organisation by a group suspected of also targeting the air force, the Reserve Bank, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service."



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Court case reveals high-stakes, cut-throat market for training spies

 "A former Canberra businessman who stole information from his boss and used it to sell training to spies has been ordered to make a massive payout."



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Australian spies secretly monitor phone calls in the Philippines: Edward Snowden disclosure

"Australian spies are helping the United States secretly monitor telephone calls across the Philippines, leaked US intelligence documents reveal. "



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Defence Intelligence Agencies _PDF 170KB_ - Inspector General of

Defence Intelligence Agencies _PDF 170KB_ - Inspector General of:



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ASIO saw Yemen drone pair as a risk | The Australian

"TWO Australian citizens killed in Yemen in a US drone strike had their passports cancelled a year before they died, amid fears they posed a threat to national ­security."



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PM adviser named new EU ambassador

"The veteran diplomat has academic expertise in cold war politics, as well as holding various positions with the secretive Office of National Assessments."



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You, YES YOU, could be Australia's very own Edward Snowden • The Register

"The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is hiring system administrators and its efforts to do so offer a hint of the technologies the nation's enemies need to crack."



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15 May 2014 - Appointment of new Director-General of Security

"The Governor-General has accepted the Government’s recommendation that Mr Duncan Lewis AO DSC CSC be appointed to lead the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) as Director-General of Security."



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