What's that smell?
Ah yes, the smell of bollocks.
Australian Signals Directorate deputy director Steve Day says hackers have failed to extract any sensitive information from Federal Government agencies for the last two years despite successfully breaching several networks. Day chalks it up to agencies following the lauded "Top 4 security controls" developed by ASD bod Steve …
Australian Signals Directorate deputy director Steve Day says hackers have failed to extract any sensitive information from Federal Government agencies for the last two years despite successfully breaching several networks.
That he's aware of, and that is entirely the point. Nation state and other sophisticated groups don't tend to leave Hansel and Gretel style sweety trails for you to follow. Either Australia has nothing anyone gives a shit about or this guy is seriously delusional. Having witnessed the local mindset for some years now my money is firmly on the latter.
The story about no hackers stealing data is simply not true. Australia's spy agencies insist on CISCO routers while at the same time they KNOW these routers have already been backdoored by the NSA. This means anything sent on a Australian government system is also sent to Fort Mead and is available for exploitation and analysis by the USA if they desire. 'Not Hacked' is a bare faced lie.