As with many things, timing is everything, and in the weeks after word drifted out that Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Data61 was binning its secure microkernel research, the world of cyber attacks manifested in the real world in new ways. From oil pipelines, to meat works, to a more traditional Russian-backed phishing campaign, the cyberdial has been turned up and the frequency of attacks, particularly in the ransomware space, has hit deluge-like levels.

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