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Explainer: what is sabotage and why is the ASIO chief worried about it?
The Conversation
29/02/2024
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Abstract
Last night, ASIO boss Mike Burgess made another powerful public statement in delivering the Annual Threat Assessment for 2024. Burgess stated that ASIO has seen “terrorists and spies […] talking about sabotage, researching sabotage, sometimes conducting reconnaissance for sabotage”.
He also highlighted the increasing focus on cyber (online methods) as a way that sabotage might be conducted. He said:
ASIO is aware of one nation state conducting multiple attempts to scan critical infrastructure in Australia and other countries, targeting water, transport and energy networks.
This would seem to align with recent reports of Chinese hackers spending up to five years in US computer networks before being detected.
But what exactly is sabotage, and should we be worried?
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- Title
- Explainer: what is sabotage and why is the ASIO chief worried about it?
- Creators
- Brendan Walker-Munro (Author) - Southern Cross UniversitySarah Kendall (Author) - The University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- The Conversation
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group
- Identifiers
- 991013168413202368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Magazine article