- Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Tobias is Australia’s inaugural Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology. He commenced as Ambassador for Cyber Affairs in January 2017, before having his mandate expanded to reflect the central role that technology issues have in geopolitics.
He leads Australia’s Whole of Government international engagement to advance and protect Australia’s national security, foreign policy, economic and trade, and development interests in cyberspace and critical technology. - Director of the Australian APEC Study Centre
Craig is an eminent economist, with 35 years of experience in public policy, politics and public service. He was Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1986 to 1990 and, after entering parliament in 1998, went on to serve as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, and Minister Assisting
Chinese Hack on Microsoft Poses Imminent Threat to Australian Security: Expert
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) sounded the alarm on March 3, urging organisations to follow tech giant Microsoft’s instructions to patch vulnerable systems which came under threat by a state-sponsored Chinese cyber attacker.
This comes after Microsoft announced on March 2 that a cyber actor based in China, which they called “Hafnium,” hacked its email server software, Microsoft Exchange.
The extent of Hafnium’s operations in the United States included the targeting of a multitude of sectors for the purposes of exfiltrating important information.
These sectors included infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense contractors, policy think tanks, and NGOs.