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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has found that 17 countries are responsible for most of the disinformation spread through Twitter, none of which are from the Five Eyes grouping. Europe is largely absent too. Who knew?

It looks like the defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, is running low on funds. Nothing else can account for the surfacing of its executive director Peter Jennings on the opinion pages of The Australian, conjuring up a fictional version of a Chinese bid to grab Taiwan.

Security outfit Forcepoint has appointed experienced global channels and business development executive Parag Patel as its senior vice-president of Global Channel Sales.

A senior official from the Australian arm of Forcepoint, an American multinational security software developer, has welcomed the news that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will create a cyber security role in his cabinet when he carries out a reshuffle next month.

Security practitioners need to shift from looking at external threats and concentrate on user behaviour as they access data, the chief product officer of security firm Forcepoint, Nico Popp, believes.

The defence industry lobby group Australian Strategic Policy Institute is acting to ratchet up tensions with Australia's major trading partner China and using funds it gets from the Federal Government for this purpose, more than $20 million at last count, the Australian arm of the Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei Technologies says in a strongly-worded blog post.

The defence industry-funded lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has many shortcomings. But it has numerous strong points too, chief among which is its unceasing ability to spread misinformation, propaganda and heighten the fear index in society.

The Australian Government is attempting to fix a manufactured problem — disinformation on social media — without properly assessing the source to see if vested interests are pushing a case for which there is no basis.

Global security firm Forcepoint has expressed alarm at the rising number of data breaches that are exposing the data of ordinary Australians to exploitation by malicious attackers.

Networking equipment maker Netgear has advised users of its routers to ensure they are running the latest firmware in the wake of reports that malware known as VPNFilter has infected nearly 500,000 devices in 54 countries.

WikiLeaks has released the latest tranche of documents from its Vault 7 dumps, but this time the material pertains to a missile-control system, based on PIC micro-controllers, and developed by Raytheon.

Anyone attributing cyber attacks to Russia or any other country or hacker group should proceed with the utmost caution, the chief technology officer of data protection and insider threats at security provider Forcepoint says.

Global cybersecurity company Forcepoint says the increasing convergence between the physical and digital realms will create a number of new avenues for exploitation by nefarious individuals in 2017.

Well Forcepoint powered by Raytheon anyway.

Cyber-criminals will target New Payment Technologies, Generic Top Level Domains and the US Elections in 2016 according to cybersecurity expert Raytheon |Websense.

Earlier this year Raytheon and Websense came together to leverage the best security offerings of each company – Raytheon for its government/military hardened experience and Websense for its cloud and on premise security services.

A joint initiative by government, industry and the National Science and Technology Centre, Questacon, has given students from secondary schools in three states experience with the cutting-edge of design technology.

Thales Australia and its partners has won the contract to deliver the Department of Defence's Next Generation Desktop project.

The U.S. Navy tested its Laser Weapons System (LaWS) in May 2010, shooting down four unmanned aerial vehicles. The Raytheon video depicting one of the Star-War-like events is available for you to see.