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ASIO boss Mike Burgess says Australia faces a serious risk of sabotage.

ASIO boss sounds alarm on ‘devastating, disruptive’ Chinese hacking threat

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has warned that Australia has “now reached the threshold for high-impact sabotage”.

  • Matthew Knott

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More could be done to protect Australians from data breaches.

Big business needs bigger penalties to ensure it protects our data

A proactive approach is urgently needed to protect Australia from data and privacy breaches.

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New AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett at the police headquarters.

Gaza tensions, Nazis and nefarious foreign actors spark police overhaul

The first woman to lead the AFP said Hamas attacks – and Israel’s response labelled a genocide by the United Nations – triggered a rise in cases driven by ideological hatred.

  • Paul Sakkal
Inside China’s top cyberespionage agency.

How China’s secretive spy agency became a cyber powerhouse

Fears of US surveillance drove Xi Jinping to elevate the agency and put it at the centre of his cyber ambitions.

  • Chris Buckley and Adam Goldman

Kids’ medical information, passport details feared compromised in school cyberattack

Parents at a Catholic school in Melbourne’s north-east have been warned to be on the alert after the IT breach.

  • Nicole Precel and Bridie Smith
Some of the Russian agents named by the UK government, clockwise from top-left: Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Korchagin, Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Serebriakov, Yuriy Federovich Denisov, Vladislav Yevgenyevich Borovkov and Artem Valeryvich Ochichenko.

‘Chaos and disorder’: Russian spies named, sanctioned by UK government

The UK government revealed the Russian agents who engaged in the attacks over more than a decade, in a rare exposure aimed at highlighting the scale of the threat to the public.

  • David Crowe
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Marco Rubio rang foreign ministers – but it wasn’t really him. It was an AI imposter

Someone using an artificially generated voice to impersonate the US secretary of state called three foreign ministers and two US officials – and left voicemails.

  • Humeyra Pamuk
COMAC Chinese-built passenger plane - a jigsaw of components from existing makers of airliners like Boeing and Airbus.

‘Prisoner’s dilemma’: How China is using the West to try and rule the skies

China’s Great Leap Skyward has the potential to shake up global aviation, but first its premier commercial airliner must fully get off the ground.

  • Chris Zappone
Brydens Lawyers has been hit with a devastating cyber attack. The firm is led by former Wests Tigers chairman and lawyer Lee Hagipantelis.

Prominent Sydney law firm hit with cyberattack, massive data breach

A prominent Sydney law firm has been hit with a cyber extortion attack targeting confidential information about cases and clients.

  • Perry Duffin
An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington.

‘Most serious in history’: China’s hacking reaches deep into US telecoms

Only in the past week has it become clear that “every major” communication company has been broken into by the Chinese spy group Salt Typhoon.

  • David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes