Australia may have just signed a landmark UN cybercrime treaty pledging international co-operation - it should not put us at ease.
While it's the first global framework to combat offences now costing $10.5 trillion annually, breaches across our critical systems reveal we're dangerously unprepared at home.
The scale has been unprecedented. In recent weeks, universities exposed tens of thousands of tax file numbers and health records.
Qantas had nearly 6 million customers compromised . Victorian hospitals were hit by ransomware. Origin Energy breached by an insider. This isn't isolated incidents - it's a pattern of systemic vulnerability across aviation, healthcare, government, utilities, education and financial services.
Just this month the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) issued a

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