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The Industry Speaks: Cyber Security Awareness Month 2026, pt6

The Industry Speaks: Cyber Security Awareness Month 2026, pt6

“As organisations embrace AI to drive productivity and innovation, attackers will use the same technologies to scale ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
WallabyGPT: AI slashes Indigenous rangers’ wildlife monitoring workload by 81%

WallabyGPT: AI slashes Indigenous rangers’ wildlife monitoring workload by 81%

An AI animal-detection tool has made wildlife image analysis easier for Indigenous rangers in West Arnhem, freeing time ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
CBA denies offshoring following construction of Indian office complex

CBA denies offshoring following construction of Indian office complex

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is under fire after it constructed a new office complex in India; bank claims new ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
The Big Melt: How Australia can stop a French-style refrigerator hacking campaign

The Big Melt: How Australia can stop a French-style refrigerator hacking campaign

Wherever there are refrigeration controls connected to the internet, there is risk, says Claroty’s Jason Pearce.

David Hollingworth • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
Patch now! Hackers already targeting newly disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day

Patch now! Hackers already targeting newly disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day

CVE-2026-104935 is a high-severity authentication bypass that one analyst calls “incredibly simple” to exploit, as CISA ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
Op-Ed: Microsoft October Patch Tuesday reveals 1,413 vulnerabilities

Op-Ed: Microsoft October Patch Tuesday reveals 1,413 vulnerabilities

Microsoft is publishing 1,413 own-product vulnerabilities on October 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 1,102 vulnerabilities ...

Adam Barnett, Lead Software Engineer at Rapid7 • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
Exclusive: Mandurah SES confirms operations unaffected by ransomware attack

Exclusive: Mandurah SES confirms operations unaffected by ransomware attack

The Gentlemen claims hack of a Western Australian State Emergency Service unit; past and present members notified of the ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
Fortnum Private Wealth cops $1.35m fine over cyber security failures

Fortnum Private Wealth cops $1.35m fine over cyber security failures

The Supreme Court of NSW orders a Sydney-based financial consultant to pay up after it admitted failing to manage cyber ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 14 Oct 2026
AFP to partner with Monash to develop ‘online welfare alert tool’

AFP to partner with Monash to develop ‘online welfare alert tool’

AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett says she is concerned young people are turning to AI rather than the authorities when ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 13 Oct 2026
The big melt: French supermarket refrigerators targeted in widespread cyber attack

The big melt: French supermarket refrigerators targeted in widespread cyber attack

A cyber attack has spoiled food and caused several fires after hackers spiked refrigerator temperatures to up to 50 ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 13 Oct 2026
US DOJ, FBI seize Chinese hacking tools used to target critical infrastructure

US DOJ, FBI seize Chinese hacking tools used to target critical infrastructure

Microscan and FishHub, a pair of intrusion tools used by the Chinese company Integrity Tech, were recently targeted by ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 13 Oct 2026
Fake AUSTRAC officials, WhatsApp scams: Agencies targeted as AML/CTF enforcement ramps up

Fake AUSTRAC officials, WhatsApp scams: Agencies targeted as AML/CTF enforcement ramps up

AUSTRAC has warned real estate agencies to stay vigilant as scammers impersonating the regulator have begun making their ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 13 Oct 2026
Exclusive: All Souls St Gabriels School investigating cyber incident in wake of ransomware claims

Exclusive: All Souls St Gabriels School investigating cyber incident in wake of ransomware claims

The Gentlemen ransomware group has listed a North Queensland school as a victim of a data breach and threatened to ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 13 Oct 2026
Greens senator refers firing squad live stream to eSafety Commissioner

Greens senator refers firing squad live stream to eSafety Commissioner

Sarah Hanson-Young calls for live-streamed execution to be blocked in Australia; One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce agrees.

David Hollingworth • Mon, 12 Oct 2026
Exclusive: Australian patient data compromised in Icon Cancer Centre hack

Exclusive: Australian patient data compromised in Icon Cancer Centre hack

Icon Oncology Group confirms it is investigating the extent of the breach after data belonging to Australia’s largest ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 12 Oct 2026
ASOS hack: Company continues to investigate, confirms password and credit card data unaffected

ASOS hack: Company continues to investigate, confirms password and credit card data unaffected

Fashion giant tells customers they do not need to take action to secure their accounts, but stolen data could still lead ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 12 Oct 2026
St Vincent’s launches national AI Clinical Council

St Vincent’s launches national AI Clinical Council

The new clinical body will advise one of Australia’s largest healthcare organisations on the ethical use of artificial ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 12 Oct 2026
Act now! Aussie cyber agency updates Citrix NetScaler critical alert to include brand new vulnerability

Act now! Aussie cyber agency updates Citrix NetScaler critical alert to include brand new vulnerability

ACSC has added CVE-2026-107406 to its most recent alert after Citrix urged customers to update devices to the latest ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 12 Oct 2026
DigiCert certificate management revenue grows 38%

DigiCert certificate management revenue grows 38%

The company’s Trust Lifecycle Manager annual recurring revenue (ARR) grew 38 per cent year on year as enterprises ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 12 Oct 2026
The rundown: Firmus and its failed $44bn ASX IPO?

The rundown: Firmus and its failed $44bn ASX IPO?

A major Australian AI infrastructure and “neocloud” company has now delayed going public after a proposed IPO offer that ...

Daniel Croft • Fri, 09 Oct 2026