Malcolm Turnbull concedes foreign agents may use compromising material to target MPs

By David Wroe
Updated January 24 2017 - 11:08pm, first published 8:20pm
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's cyber security adviser Alastair MacGibbon. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's cyber security adviser Alastair MacGibbon. Photo: Andrew Meares

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has acknowledged foreign agents may be trying to gather compromising material on individual Australian politicians through cyber attacks, while a Labor MP has said parliamentarians themselves are the "weakest link".

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