ASD Among Government Organisations Fixing Website Security Due to Hacking Concerns

Critical Flaw Hits Australian Government, Intelligence Websites Amid Global Alert

The Australian Signals Directorate, the peak intelligence body intercepting cybersecurity threats, said its website had been affected.

Major Australian websites go down due to critical security flaw

Some of Australia's major government websites were taken offline after security vulnerabilities were identified.

ASD among government organisations fixing website security due to hacking concerns

The Australian Signals Directorate has confirmed it is making fixes to its own website after major vulnerabilities were found in programming language. Follow live.

Websites go offline worldwide amid huge risk

Australian government websites including that of the country’s own cyber defence agency and the ABS were among hundreds around the world shut down overnight after critical security flaws were found in PHP, a programming language that runs more than two thirds of the internet.

Update on PHP response – 16 News

The NSW Government is aware of and responding to security concerns about the PHP scripting language.  Cyber Security NSW is working with departments and agencies to ensure updates are applied to any affected websites. This is a global incident and to date no NSW Government agencies have reported any information breaches to Cyber Security NSW. … Continue reading "Update on PHP response"