Government shuns ethical hacker safeguards

The Australian Government has rejected efforts to create legal safeguards for ethical hacking, according to a UNSW researcher.

Researcher Alana Maurushat was among several security professionals to raise the idea during the recent reviews of Australia’s cybercrime laws.

Maurushat told SC Magazine’s Security on the Move conference yesterday that rejection of the proposal "infuriates me to no end." “They asked me to make submissions; I said I couldn’t do it; They gave me extensions, so I went out of my way and took two days off, as many [industry professionals] may have, and they did not take on one suggestion in two years – disgusting.”