Australia’s had a rough 12 months for cybersecurity – and it’s not about to get any easier… The Australian Signals Directorate’s cyber threat report came out yesterday, reiterating that our high levels of internet connectivity and relative wealth make us a target for cybercrime. As for who’s coming at us, China was named as the major backer of serious hacking exploits. The Albanese Government appointed National Cyber Security Coordinator Darren Goldie mid this year to spearhead efforts, but he has been recalled to his home department of Defence to deal with a “workplace matter”. No further details were made available on that… And critical infrastructure related – we have an explanation of sorts for the Optus meltdown last week. According to an unnamed engineer, a software update at parent company Singtel (based in Singapore) resulted in the Optus network crashing for 16 hours of mayhem. Oopsie…