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She may have spent years driving Australia’s science and technology agenda, but Karen Andrews’s escalation to Home Affairs minister will be a trial by fire as she inherits the investigation, cleanup, and attribution of four major cybersecurity breaches on her first days on the job.
National broadcaster Nine Network was hobbled by a major ransomware breach on Sunday, 28 March 2021, shutting down its production systems and forcing the company to revert to backup procedures as its Sydney studios went offline, preventing the broadcasting of a range of content.
The Nine Network cyberattack’s damage done
CEO Mike Sneesby told staff that the attack “was significant in scale with high potential to disrupt our business” as the major news and current-affairs producer investigated the breach with help from government authorities including the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) that now falls under Andrews’s purview after a major Morriso
A state of containment, but will take time to restore Nine
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