The ripple effect of this week’s mass Telstra outage exposes how vulnerable Australia is to future potential attacks on critical infrastructure, cyber security experts warn. The outage not only left millions of customers without mobile phone coverage but also shut down huge sections of regional passenger rail networks, and crippled business operators relying on digital payments.Any bad actor looking to target Australia now has more “critical intelligence” about our critical infrastructure, including how long the systems take to recover.The issue was first identified at 4.30am affecting “a number of nodes that help keep time across our mobile network”. Do you think that Australia is now exposed
