From cybercrime to cyber warfare: Australia woefully unprepared

By Nassim Khadem
Updated December 5 2016 - 12:08pm, first published 11:29am
Alastair MacGibbon, special adviser to the Prime Minister on cyber security, says Australia has got to get its 'house in order'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Alastair MacGibbon, special adviser to the Prime Minister on cyber security, says Australia has got to get its 'house in order'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Telstra chief executive Andy Penn describes the daily scale of cyber activity as 'pretty frightening'. Photo: Ben Rushton
Telstra chief executive Andy Penn describes the daily scale of cyber activity as 'pretty frightening'. Photo: Ben Rushton
Cybercrime is now the No.1 economic crime in Australia. Photo: Tanya Lake
Cybercrime is now the No.1 economic crime in Australia. Photo: Tanya Lake

If there was one event in 2016 that characterised Australia's total lack of preparedness against cyber attacks, it was the epic failure of the Census on August 9.

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