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One hour before its troops invaded Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber attack against satellite internet company Viasat, disabling most of its European network. Ukraine's military communications were temporarily crippled.

On QandA, CyberCX's Alastair MacGibbon said there’s no right or wrong answer when cyber criminals strike. 

Australia's cyber security investigators are scouring the dark reaches of the internet to identify anyone buying or selling the private information of Medibank customers. Sarah Ferguson interviews Ciaran Martin on 7.30.

On ABC RN Breakfast, Ciaran Martin said “what's happened in Australia in recent months reminds us that data is a valuable, illicit commodity."

Founding CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre and CyberCX Global Advisory Board member Ciaran Martin sat down exclusively with The Australian Financial Review for a thoughtful conversation which ranged from the likelihood of a prolonged period of cyber instability, and the impacts of Russian state-sponsored attacks and providing a safe haven for cyber criminals, to China-fuelled strategic competition.

Australians have a growing awareness of online security risks, but keeping ourselves and our communities safe is something we can all play a part in, Alastair MacGibbon told The Australian.

On Seven Network news, Alastair MacGibbon said “there’s not a consumer sitting watching their television tonight who hasn’t received a scam call, text, or email in the last week.”

Katherine Mansted spoke with The Guardian Australia about the criminal ecosystem that sits behind the recent high-profile cyber crime wave.

CyberCX's Aaron Pollard, together with 6clicks' Andrew Robinson feature in this episode of the Cyber Security Uncut podcast, unpacking supply chain risk management amid an evolving threat environment.

The nature of breaking through barriers to create something new is that you move into territory where risks are not well understood, writes Grant Walsh for Qantas Travel Insider.

CyberCX CEO John Paitaridis told CRN “the underrepresentation of women across the cyber security workforce is frankly unacceptable – and it’s on every leader from industry, through to schools, universities, TAFEs, and government to do what we can to address it.”

Any national conversation about skills shortages should focus on and prioritise sectors where a shortfall of qualified professionals is creating fundamental risks for our economy and society, writes John Paitaridis for The Australian.

“We certainly did see a trend in the last 18 months of ransomware threat actors shifting the way they operate,” Alastair MacGibbon told The Australian Financial Review. “If you go back 18 months, you would see criminals locking up computer systems and demanding money in exchange for a key to decrypt those locked files. Fast forward to mid-2022, and hackers are increasingly realising that they may also have access to highly sensitive information, which they can threaten to make public.”

Nick Klein spoke with The Australian Financial Review to help affected Optus customers - and Australians more broadly - understand the real-world consequences of large data breaches.

Writing in The Australian Financial Review, CyberCX's Alastair MacGibbon says Australia has fallen too far behind on privacy, and the Optus breach was the wake-up call we needed to catch up.

New research by CyberCX has shown that companies in the financial services sector accounted for 30% of ransomware attacks, with telecommunications companies tracking to 11%. Katherine Mansted spoke with The Australian Financial Review, and explained that “While financial services organisations are among the most cyber mature in [Australia and New Zealand], cyber skills gaps and human error, particularly in larger and emerging organisations, continued to present one of the highest reported cause of data breaches."

David Batch, spoke with The Australian Financial Review about the heightened focus on privacy in the wake of the Optus breach.

David Batch spoke with ABC News, advising users to take privacy and security into their own hands, after the recent Optus hack exposed personal details including licence and passport numbers.

Jed Laundry spoke with ABC News about how the Optus data breach has given millions of people cause to reflect on cyber security and how safe we feel from threats like identify fraud.

Liam O’Shannessy spoke with The Australian Financial Review about the threat of SIM-jacking, or SIM-swap fraud, in the wake of the Optus data breach.

Katherine Mansted spoke with Sunrise about the ripple effects from the Optus data breach, saying companies around Australia will be taking stock of just how secure their customers’ private information actually is.

Alastair MacGibbon made clear on Sky News Australia, the Optus breach has and will continue to affect millions of Australians.

There is a need to ‘rapidly upskill’ amid predicted shortfall of cyber security jobs
There is a predicted shortfall of 30,000 cyber security jobs in the next four years and a need to “rapidly upskill”, Katherine Mansted told Sky News Australia.

The West Australian boss of a leading cyber security firm says the benefits of having a local presence to help businesses manage a growing number of threats should not be discounted in a world of remote work.

Huge surges in cybercrime, including ransoming, fraud and data theft, will leave Australia 30,000 cyber professionals short over the next four years of what is required to cover the security needs of the country, according to new research.

As the region’s leading cyber security services provider, CyberCX is committed to backing innovative Australian cyber security technology companies like Devicie to grow, accelerate and blaze a trail into overseas markets, CyberCX CEO John Paitaridis told AFR.

Katherine Mansted spoke with Sky News following allegations raised by a former Twitter executive about the social media company’s cyber security practices and policies.

In this episode of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's podcast, CyberCX Global Advisory Board member and former US Cyber Command and NSA chief, Admiral Michael Rogers (ret.), sat down to discuss the need for better, more integrated strategies to compete with China in key technology areas.

Alastair MacGibbon spoke with The Wall Street Journal on growing concerns about China’s ability to interfere with Taiwan’s cyber infrastructure as geopolitical tensions continue to rise.

The AUKUS agreement could transform Australian hi-tech and defence technology but nuclear-powered subs may take longer than expected, Admiral Michael Rogers (ret.) told The Australian.

We've built an entire lifestyle and economic model around uninterrupted and continued connectivity, but what happens when we can't access that? Admiral Michael Rogers (ret.) joined ABC's RN Breakfast to share his insights on cyber technology and national security.

Australian government, healthcare and energy are among the sectors being targeted by a massive phishing campaign identified by cyber security experts at CyberCX, who say the group behind the attacks is “an at least moderately resourced threat actor with sustained intent to target Australian organisations”.

Katherine Mansted spoke with The Australian Financial Review discussing growing concerns about the way that Australians’ data may be accessed and used in China.

Most small businesses are grossly ill-prepared to defend themselves against cyber crooks, Murray Goldschmit told Money Magazine.

Access to individual user data may not be our biggest concern. Rather it's access "social mapping at scale", Katherine Mansted told The Australian.

In an interview with Stuff.co.nz, Adam Boileau warns many travellers are forgetting how much information is hiding in plain sight on their boarding pass.

Australia has been lucky so far in not experiencing a major cyber incident disrupting essential services, Steve Schupp told The West Australian.

Australian companies are falling behind their international competitors when it comes to protecting the online privacy of their customers and users, a CyberCX study has found.

After a landmark $9.9b investment in cyber security was announced in the Federal Budget, Katherine Mansted told Sky News “It’s right and proper that Australia should be investing more here.”

Katherine Mansted spoke with ABC News about the major cyber spending measures announced in the 2022 Federal Budget.

Alastair MacGibbon spoke with 2GB’s Mark Levy about online and social media scams.

Companies that put their ‘heads above the parapet’ and speak out against Russia are facing an elevated risk of cyber attacks, Katherine Mansted told The Australian.

Alastair MacGibbon told ABC News the risks were growing as the electricity system became more complex.

In this episode of the National Security Podcast, Katherine Mansted joins industry guests to discuss initial reactions to the unfolding conflict in Ukraine.

It turns out that the next war was not fought in cyberspace after all. Or at least the start of it has not been, writes Ciaran Martin in this opinion piece for Lawfare.

The digital skirmishes between Ukraine and Russia could impact Australia in two ways, Alastair MacGibbon told ABC News.

New Zealand's security services have warned businesses to be ready for impacts to the country's computers and networks from the escalating conflict in Ukraine, writes Adam Boileau.

Australian cyber security firm CyberCX issued a new threat advisory warning that the threat to Australian and New Zealand firms has "materially increased" due to the conflict in Europe.

Alastair MacGibbon spoke with Sky News Australia on the cyber risks to Australian organisations of ongoing Ukraine-Russia tensions.

Cyber offensive capabilities will prove crucial in the next war. Katherine Mansted spoke with the Sydney Morning Herald about Australia’s readiness to fight online.

Katherine Mansted spoke with ABC Radio National about the growing number of foreign intelligence operatives using social media and dating apps to recruit Australians with...

Scam texts and calls are on the rise. Alastair MacGibbon spoke to 3AW Melbourne's Neil Mitchell, saying that unfortunately there is...

Jana Dekanovska featured on Aesthetic Medical Practitioner discussing how to protect business and patients from ransomware and cyber extortionists.

Katherine Mansted joined the 100^th National Security Podcast to explore the big events from the last 12 months and analyse how...

Adam Boileau spoke with The Spinoff about the widespread implications of the Log4j vulnerability, which has “set the internet...

Adam Boileau spoke with Stuff.co.nz about what could be done to take some of the fight back to cyber criminals in the face of a ransomware “pandemic”.

Alastair MacGibbon joined The Secure Board in this episode to discuss the role of directors in cyber security governance.

Alastair MacGibbon spoke with Patricia Karvelas on ABC Radio National Drive about the Australian government’s recently...

Ciaran Martin wrote for Prospect Magazine about the state of cyber security in 2021 and the need for a sustained effort across...