Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar 72
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks cables released overnight revealed that Australia's top cyber spy agency (akin to the NSA) was unprepared for cyberwar in the view of other intelligence agencies in 2008. Australian agencies were so concerned they asked US intelligence to provide the framework to defend the country's critical information infrastructure, modelling on the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Spooks also discussed how Israel was preparing to take down Iran's nuclear program and how to stay relevant when so much information that was classified was now open source and available to anyone."
Re:This isn't surprising. (Score:4, Funny)
Australia would freely admit that they could be taken down by Anonymous, and therefore Anonymous would leave us alone.
It's only if we were to taunt them that we would be in real trouble...
Re:This isn't surprising. (Score:5, Funny)
Australia would freely admit that they could be taken down by Anonymous, and therefore Anonymous would leave us alone.
It's only if we were to taunt them that we would be in real trouble...
Sounds like Anonymous Cowardice to me ;-)
Re:Commit Crime with Impunity (Score:5, Funny)
There is more than enough talent being trained in Australia, what we lack is a communication and "digital economy" minister that actually knows something about IT. They guy got locked out of his own iphone FFS.
http://apcmag.com/how-conroys-daughter-wrecked-his-unsecured-iphone.htm [apcmag.com]
They guy is clueless and just keeps pushing his censorship agenda. Oh and the useless NBN.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/154249,nbn-useless-without-subsea-investment.aspx [itnews.com.au]
Re:In retrospect... (Score:4, Funny)