CANBERRA – Australia’s hospitals and health care system are at a high risk from cyber-attackers targeting citizens’ personal data, the home affairs minister said, adding the country needs to step up its efforts to combat hacking attempts.
“The question is, are we tackling the cybersecurity threat with an energy level commensurate to which we’re being attacked? And I would say that we’re not there at the moment,” she said in an interview late last week. “We would be foolish to deny the fact that the exact same attackers – the same actors, same technology – are targeting countries around the world who are just like Australia,” she said. The minister said she had received an official review into the attacks on Optus and Medibank and would be releasing the findings “relatively soon”.
It would work towards standardising cybersecurity language and exploring ways to share information on ransomware threats.
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