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Abigail Bradshaw has been named as the new head of the Australian Signals Directorate after four years as the organisation's deputy.

Amazon has secured a A$2 billion contract with the Australian Signals Directorate – the agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence and information security. A local subsidiary of Amazon Web Services will build a Top Secret Cloud to provide secure data storage for military intelligence.

The Australian Signals Directorate will boost the nation's cyber shield as the defence force prepares to handle coveted nuclear secrets from the US and UK.

View forming within Medibank that details were then sold on a Russian-language cybercrime forum

The awe-inspiring abilities of a 14-year-old code-cracker from Tasmania boggled many minds last week, but it turns out he wasn't the only one to conquer the coin challenge.

"We're hoping to meet him soon... to recruit him."

A 14-year-old Tasmanian boy cracks four levels of code imprinted on a commemorative 50-cent coin in "just over an hour" after it was released by the nation's foreign intelligence cybersecurity agency — and the spy boss says she wants to meet him so she can "recruit him".

ASD boss says cyber environment has become ‘messy’ since Ukraine conflict and laments ‘concrete block’ for women

The commemorative coin lathered in code by the Australian Signals Directorate is sure to pique the interest of conspiracy theorists, if these historical examples are anything to go by.