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Rise in cyber attacks on Australian businesses

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Cyber attacks against Australian organisations are rising, with more than one fifth of 255 major companies surveyed for a new government report admitting they were targets in the past year.

Of those, a further 20 per cent said they had experienced more than 10 "cyber security incidents". One organisation reported the theft of 15 years of critical business data.

The 2012 Cyber Crime and Security Survey Report, commissioned by national computer emergency response team CERT Australia and conducted by the University of Canberra, was released on Monday.

The report said those who reported no cyber incidents were likely to not have detected them.