Cyber Security
Australia names and shames in its fight against foreign interference
Foreign interference concerns have been well documented in Australia in recent years with regular reports of intimidation of diaspora communities, monitoring of university…
Why outsourcing counter-terrorism online won’t work in future
The past five years have seen the creation of a latticework of overlapping methodologies to identify and remove online terrorist content and hate speech. Most notably, a…
Australian cyber: What’s “Redspice” for?
Canberra is significantly boosting the cyber capabilities of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) – the government agency responsible for signals intelligence, support to…
Ukraine: This isn’t the information war you were looking for
Dystopias make for popular fare. One needs only look at popular video games to see a common theme: Fallout’s nuclear wasteland, Mass Effect’s alien invasion, or Horizon Zero Dawn…
Digital authoritarianism not just a China problem
According to 2019 data from the World Trade Organisation, China is the largest global supplier of telecommunications equipment (generating US$296 billion compared to US$169…
Disinfopreneurs and infodemics
The use of social media in influence campaigns, including grey-zone activities and hybrid warfare, is becoming more complicated, more diverse, more profitable and more dangerous.
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A zero-trust approach to cyber security
Amid the steady deterioration of the US–China relationship in recent years, China has become the focus of a new narrative on cyber risks, with one company targeted in particular,…
Indonesia responds to the cyber dark side
The “DarkSide” ransomware cyber-attack on the US-based gasoline facility Colonial Pipeline, which has disrupted East Coast fuel supplies and invoked emergency legislation,…
Analyses
Digital Authoritarianism, China and COVID
The coronavirus has showcased China's cyber-powered social
control capabilities, with implications for human rights worldwide.
Interactives
China and the Rules‑Based Order
Seven experts debate China’s approach to the rules‑based international order