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• Trusted insider a security threat, warns Brandis

  Security planners are racing to close gaps across networks and ICT infrastructure. But they have overlooked a Trojan horse already inside the gate, Attorney-General, George Brandis has warned.

• Government requests for Twitter user data grow

  Australian government requests for personal data on Twitter users this year has significantly increased since last year, according to Twitter’s latest Transparency Report.
  

• Australian parliament Web site attacked

  The Australian Parliament's Web site was hit by an apparent denial-of-service attack Wednesday, two days after the hacking group Anonymous threatened attacks over the government's plan to filter Web content.