As Australia heads for an election due by May, lawmakers were told this month told to urgently change their passwords after the cyber intelligence agency detected an attack on the national parliament's computer network. The hackers breached the networks of major political parties, Morrison said, as he issued an initial assessment by investigators. "Our cyber experts believe that a sophisticated state actor is responsible for this malicious activity," he told parliament. Investors are still securing local networks, said Alastair MacGibbon, head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the government department responsible for online security. Analysts have said China, Russia and Iran were the most likely culprits.

Source: bd News24 February 18, 2019 03:00 UTC