Security Intelligence

Russian man Aleksandr Ermakov, who was named responsible for the 2022 Medibank hack, has reportedly been detained in Russia over alleged cyber crimes.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face a last-ditch legal challenge this week to stop his extradition from Britain to the US, in what his wife has described as a matter of life or death.

A vast technology gap that has eaten deeply into Australia's ability to determine its own path is now so vast, it has become impossible to bridge, writes Linton Besser.

The 52-year-old WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the US for espionage, and faces 18 charges related to the publication of a range of highly classified information relating to the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The report noted Mr Biden's problems with memory recollection, including that he could not remember the dates of his vice presidency under Barack Obama and the death of his son Beau to cancer in 2015.

The yearlong investigation focused on the improper retention of classified documents by the US president from his time as a senator and as vice-president.

A former CIA software engineer was sentenced to 40 years in prison for what the US government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos.

A Chinese embassy official confronts Australia's new cyber ambassador after he told a gathering of diplomats in Canberra that Beijing was responsible for a series of devastating online attacks against this country.

The United States and the United Kingdom have joined Australia in sanctioning Russian man Aleksandr Ermakov over what they say is his role in the Medibank Private data breach.

Australian authorities have confirmed that Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov is a member of the Russian hacking syndicate REvil.

The Australian government is using Magnitsky-style sanctions for the first time to punish a Russian man over the 2022 Medibank Private data breach. But what impact will they have on him and how will the move help curb cyber crime?

The Australian government has imposed sanctions against Russian man Aleksandr Ermakov over his role in the Medibank Private data breach.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is at risk of suicide if the UK High Court next month rejects his final appeal against extradition to the US, his lawyer warns.

The protracted battle over secrecy in the now defunct prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery is finally over, five years after he was charged with breaching national security laws, with a redacted appeal ruling released.

Anthony Albanese says missing cabinet documents from 2003 related to the Iraq War should have been handed over by the former Morrison government, as an inquiry into why the records were kept secret begins.

An independent cyber security expert has linked the breach of the court's audio-visual archives to Russian cyber hackers.

Russia launches a fresh drone assault on Ukraine as Vladimir Putin makes only a passing reference to the war in his New Year address.

The confidentiality period of cabinet documents from 2003 expires, revealing some of the deliberations of the then-Howard government — though the most sensitive discussions remain secret.

Following an anonymous tip-off, French authorities grounded a plane to conduct investigations over four days which affected 303 passengers.

A Melbourne businessman is facing up to 10 years in prison after using a hospital donation to secretly influence former federal minister Alan Tudge.

Almost everything you say, do, or see online travels the globe under the sea through a network of cables that connect almost every country on the planet — but it's also susceptible to espionage.

European Union negotiators clinch a deal on the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal oversight of technology used in popular generative AI services like ChatGPT. 

In 2004, an Indian intelligence officer suspected of leaking classified information to a foreign power seemingly vanished into thin air. Piecing together the factual and fictional accounts of the Rabinder Singh case reveals a desperate race to catch a double agent and his CIA puppeteer.

The British government has summoned the Russian ambassador over allegations Russian hackers have been targeting British politicians.

The British government accuses Russia's intelligence services of targeting high-profile politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyber espionage and "malicious cyber activity" as part of sustained attempts to interfere in UK politics.