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> In the wake of the Optus and Medibank hacks, the federal government said it would rewrite Australia's cyber laws to give the government more powers to interve
by merek 4y ago
> In the wake of the Optus and Medibank hacks, the federal government said it would rewrite Australia's cyber laws to give the government more powers to intervene.
How might the govt having "more power to intervene" help prevent/mitigate these sorts of breaches? I'm trying hard to assume honest intentions for a moment, and genuinely wondering.
- defrost 4y agoThere are two vectors at least that could be pursued; * allowing more aggresive white hat hacking of private Australian data silos to alert owners of potential weaknesses coupled with meaningful fines for those that don't address such weaknesses within a reasonable timeframe, * allowing more aggressive counter hacking responses to those that seek to breach and extract data | install ransomware. There are ups and downs to both approaches and require some level of transparency to be acceptable. ADDENDUM: It's too soon to see what the new proposals will be, the post Optus | Medibank hack comments from the Australian Fed. Government are here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-27/national-cyber-office-to-be-established-in-wake-of-optus-hack/102026156 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-27/national-cyber-office...