Australian tech news in October 2022: A sequence of serious public data hacks, low earth orbit technology developments, the She Loves Tech Australia final for women-led startups, the technology component of AUKUS, and more.
Australian Cyber Security Centre Threats Report 2022
- The race is on to build Australia’s first 3D-printed house…Dubbo councillor Matthew Wright is leading the push for a trial of four 3D-printed houses in coming months’
- AUKUS & tech: “Web3…and the technologies that enable it…are developing systems that are increasingly decentralised, permissionless and not reliant on governments and organisations to facilitate trust.”
- Australia: Amazon Web Services launches ‘Prove What’s Possible’ campaign, showcasing the resilience of Australia’s tech startups
- Australia’s Southern Launch inks data sharing agreement with US Space Command to provide Southern hemisphere de-orbit, re-entry and end-of-life de-orbit support in reducing space debris
- Australia: Woolworths supermarket giant’s MyDeal unit suffers data breach, exposing details of 2.2M customer
- She Loves Tech Australia Pitch Final takes place in Melbourne on Thursday 20th October, with 10 women-led tech startups set to present
AUKUS and Australia’s tech ecosystem / US Studies Centre
- Australia: CoinSpot crypto exchange launches cryptocurrency-backed digital-only CoinSpot Mastercard
- Australia: EnergyLab Start-Up Showcase took place on October 27, featuring Aus and NZ’s upcoming clean energy startups and including a session on opportunities presented by lithium batteries
- Australia’s Optus data breach: “Equally important is to strengthen obligations for organisations to publicly disclose data breaches. Optus made a public announcement…but was not legally required to do so.”
- “If Australia hopes to be a trusted member of its regional community it must make long-term investments in teaching and learning Asian languages…”
- Australia: Mark your calendar – evokeAG 2023 set for 21-22 February 2023 in Adelaide, bringing together the best and brightest to talk about global agri-food innovation and agri-tech
Western Australia Dealroom
- Australia: MediBank, country’s largest private health insurer, had 200GB of data stolen in hack, including customer medical service location, and codes relating to diagnosis and procedures
- Australia’s MediBank hack: “…begun when a person with high-level access within Medibank’s systems had their credentials stolen by a hacker, who then put them up for sale on a Russian-language cybercrime forum…”
- Australia: Silentium Defence unveils ‘space observatory in a box’ to track Low Earth Orbit objects in quickly deployable system which emits no radio waves
- Australia: In the wake of high-profile MediBank and Optus hacks, identity theft victims share their experiences of having personal information stolen and used
- Australia’s hacking woes continue with Australian Clinical Labs pathology firm revealing cyber-attack from 8 months ago, resulting in data of 223K people stolen, some posted to the dark web
- Australian Strategic Policy Institute and India’s Centre for Internet and Society unveil project focused on ‘techdiplomacy’ and standards settings in Artificial Intelligence in the Indo-Pacific
Framing A Transatlantic Technology Strategy / CNAS
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