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• Australian Signals Directorate open sources data analysis tool

  The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has open sourced one of its in-house data visualisation and analysis tools. The ASD announced today that it had posted the source code for Constellation on GitHub.

• Rachel Noble becomes first woman to lead ACSC

  Former CIO and long-standing public servant, Rachel Noble has been named the new head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), cementing her role in history as the first woman to lead the organisation.

• Huawei, ZTE banned from Australian 5G rollouts

  Huawei says the government has informed the company that it, along with fellow Chinese telecommunications equipment provider ZTE, has been banned from providing 5G technology to Australia's telcos.

• IT security concerns reach new high

  The Australian public’s concern about security issues is the highest it has been in the last 10 years, according to research.

• Telco Sector Security Reforms the new Data Retention Act?

  The Attorney-General’s Department has released new updates to the Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms draft bill. Internet Australia said it sees it going down the same path as the Data Retention Act by being passed without being adequately justified.

• Budget 2015: Industry criticise $295.8M on security, $153.8M on data retention

  Industry representatives affected by the Abbott Government’s push on security and data retention in last night’s Federal Budget have spoken out against the plans.

• Metadata regime to spur speculative invoicing, say Greens

  The government’s metadata regime will open the door to more copyright prosecutions and speculative invoicing, rather than focusing on police investigations and terrorism, according to the Australian Greens.

• Australian data requests to Twitter rise slightly but still low

  Twitter received 10 emergency requests for user data from the Australian government in the second half of 2014.

• Nine ASIO breaches of wiretapping laws reported in 2013-14

  ASIO breached laws governing telecommunications intercepts on nine occasions in the 12-month reporting period ended June 2014, according to a report released by the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS).

• $88m big data research centre opens in South Australia

  An $88 million big data research and development centre has opened in Adelaide, South Australia to look at how defence/national security agencies can use big data to predict cyber and physical threats to Australia.

• Telstra fields 40,000 government data requests in six months

  Telstra received about 40,000 requests for customer information from Australian government agencies in the second half of 2013, not counting national security requests, the telco has revealed.

• Ludlam, Brandis clash on privacy in cyber debate

  Federal senators disagreed over the appropriate balance between national security and privacy laws in a debate at CeBIT today.