A paper expanding greater ability to intervene during hacks – especially on private companies – causes alarm among Coalition and Greens Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Labor could face Senate difficulties if it tries to dramatically expand the government’s powers to directly intervene in companies’ IT systems during cyber attacks. Under existing laws – which were controversial when introduced by the former Coalition government – the Australian Signals Directorate has the ability to “step in” as a “last resort” in some emergency situations, but only for critical infrastructure assets.

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