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The government’s much-vaunted new “Cyber Security Centre” will have no legislation, no central leadership and no money. But it will have “unclassified areas”.

A national security committee member’s poor judgment has inflicted serious damage on the push for data retention by Australia’s security agencies.

Not much is known about how Australian Ben Zygier ended up dead in a cell in Israel. But some of what we do know comes from a Fairfax journo unwittingly entangled in the spy scandal, writes Tom Hyland.

New documents shed light on the enthusiasm of the Attorney-General’s Department to move forward with (and think large on) data retention, and the resistance it encountered from industry.

We already know what could happen if proposals to dramatically extend surveillance and intelligence-gathering powers are allowed to proceed.

The first speech by a head of ASIS, delivered yesterday by Nick Warner, is welcome, but told us little.

When Labor finally unveils a genuine threat to civil rights, its usual critics have fallen silent. Why?

A major parliamentary inquiry will examine government proposals to significantly extend surveillance powers — including to Twitter and other social media.

Nicola Roxon’s efforts to establish a process for expanding national security powers has suffered a hiccup, with the powerful Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security asking her to redraft it.

SBS is a big winner, ABX will receive $5 million to switch and upgrade regional radio services and commercial television broadcasters will get yet another government handout.

The government has moved to expand national security powers as we integrate further into America’s War on Terror.

A new “independent” review of the intelligence community by one of its chief architects surprisingly finds all is well.

An open letter to the Attorney-General Nicola Rox, calling on here to implement legislative change to ensue adverse ASIO security assessments can be meaningfully challenged.

ASIO’s powers were expanded earlier this year, we were told, to help combat illegal fishing. So this week ASIO was asked how the war on illegal fishing was faring …

The man most responsible for protecting Australia from a terrorist attack is not your typically dour spook. ASIO’s David Irvine holds an honours degree in Elizabethan history, writes Matthew Knott.

Cyber warfare continues to be spruiked by governments as a major threat. Pity they fail to explain where the threat really lies.

Julian Assange may face prosecution for revealing the identity of an ASIO officer. But governments disclose secret things all the time.

Cyber Pearl Harbors and digital Blackwaters mean the cyber defence industry is on the cusp of a boom.

Belatedly, the government is acting on a longstanding recommendation about a right to privacy. But it’s a little hypocritical.

Labor and the Coalition combined to give ASIO new powers last night. We still don’t know why.

The Attorney-General’s department, struggling to explain why ASIO needs wider powers, chooses the fish.