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OpenAI pledges US$1bn to protect critical infrastructure with frontier AI capabilities

OpenAI pledges US$1bn to protect critical infrastructure with frontier AI capabilities

New Daybreak for Frontline Defenders initiative is a global effort to “protect essential services in the United States ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 07 Sep 2026
Breached! Tutoring platform Mathspace says 1m-plus Aussies implicated by data breach

Breached! Tutoring platform Mathspace says 1m-plus Aussies implicated by data breach

Attackers abused an unpatched install of Metabase to access student, staff, and parent data, including names, emails, ...

David Hollingworth Mon, 07 Sep 2026
NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face in almost $18bn deal

NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face in almost $18bn deal

Computing hardware giant NVIDIA has announced it will buy open-source AI and developer platform Hugging Face as it looks ...

Daniel Croft Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Supermarket giant Coles to cut ties with Palantir in 2027

Supermarket giant Coles to cut ties with Palantir in 2027

The companies agree to sever ties after three years of partnership, following a vocal GetUp campaign alleging ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Alert! Hackers actively targeting pair of vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances

Alert! Hackers actively targeting pair of vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA1000 appliances

CVE-2026-83548 and CVE-2026-83549 could give attackers complete control of a target device, as experts warn customers to ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Sep 2026
South Korean and Australian business leaders expand cooperation on AI, space, and defence

South Korean and Australian business leaders expand cooperation on AI, space, and defence

South Korean and Australian business leaders have pledged to expand their cooperation into advanced industries such as ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike introduces foundational Agentic Identity Provider product

CrowdStrike introduces foundational Agentic Identity Provider product

CrowdStrike has launched an Agentic Identity Provider designed to give autonomous AI agents verifiable identities, ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Equinix, NVIDIA, and Together AI target distributed enterprise inference

Equinix, NVIDIA, and Together AI target distributed enterprise inference

Equinix is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA and partnering with Together AI to launch a distributed AI inference ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Dragos named OT security leader by Forrester as industrial cyber risks intensify

Dragos named OT security leader by Forrester as industrial cyber risks intensify

Dragos has been named a leader in Forrester’s latest evaluation of operational technology security platforms.

David Hollingworth Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Op-Ed: Beyond Essential Eight – why cyber resilience now starts in the boardroom

Op-Ed: Beyond Essential Eight – why cyber resilience now starts in the boardroom

Cyber security has become one of the defining business risks of our time, but it needs to be reframed as a leadership ...

Leighton Freene, Managing Director, Federal Government, Defence and National Security at Kinetic IT Fri, 04 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike brings multi-agent investigations to the security operations centre

CrowdStrike brings multi-agent investigations to the security operations centre

Cyber security firm CrowdStrike unveils coordinated AI investigations across endpoint, identity, SaaS, cloud, and ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 03 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike moves to block compromised open-source packages before they execute

CrowdStrike moves to block compromised open-source packages before they execute

The company has launched Real-Time Supply Chain Attack Protection, using the Falcon sensor to intercept malicious ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 03 Sep 2026
Exclusive: Victoria-based Agrimac latest alleged Storm ransomware victim

Exclusive: Victoria-based Agrimac latest alleged Storm ransomware victim

Documents belonging to an Australian agricultural machinery dealer, including payroll and customer contact data, were ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 03 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike puts AI agents under runtime security with Falcon Guardian

CrowdStrike puts AI agents under runtime security with Falcon Guardian

CrowdStrike has launched a new AI detection and response platform designed to discover, monitor, and control AI agents ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Sep 2026
Australian organisations may soon face a 72-hour data breach reporting deadline

Australian organisations may soon face a 72-hour data breach reporting deadline

Draft privacy reforms would replace the current “as soon as practicable” requirement with a fixed 72-hour deadline for ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike launches AI lab to build next generation of cyber defence

CrowdStrike launches AI lab to build next generation of cyber defence

Cyber security firm CrowdStrike stands up a new Cyber Superintelligence Lab, bringing together AI researchers, offensive ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Sep 2026
Exclusive: NSW Health denies MedusaLocker data breach claims

Exclusive: NSW Health denies MedusaLocker data breach claims

A ransomware actor has claimed the hack of a government department, but evidence suggests no malicious activity has ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Sep 2026
Western Union under the microscope of Aussie counter-terrorism funding regulator

Western Union under the microscope of Aussie counter-terrorism funding regulator

AUSTRAC launches an investigation into Western Union over money laundering and terrorism financing risks.

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Sep 2026
CrowdStrike unveils SafeMind AI frontier models to let defenders fight fire with fire

CrowdStrike unveils SafeMind AI frontier models to let defenders fight fire with fire

CrowdStrike and NVIDIA have unveiled a new agentic AI system that pairs offensive and defensive models to identify ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Sep 2026
PaperCut exploitation continues to worsen as company releases third emergency patch

PaperCut exploitation continues to worsen as company releases third emergency patch

The print management platform used by several Australian organisations, including the University of Melbourne, is under ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 02 Sep 2026