Do we need to strengthen cyber security?
News broke last week of the Medicare details of countless Australians being up for sale online. A dark web vendor has access to the full Medicare card details of any Australian on request and is selling them for around $30 each This breach that has been labelled an “internet catastrophe”. This incident is just another in a string of cyber security issues facing the australian government. We were joined by Information security and Cyber Security Expert and PhD Candidate at Charles Sturt University Georg Thomas about this pressing issue.