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Exclusive: The Gentlemen strikes Sharp Office as company confirms incident investigation

Exclusive: The Gentlemen strikes Sharp Office as company confirms incident investigation

A ransomware group claims to have hacked a Broadmeadow-based office technology supplier that works with Newcastle ...

David Hollingworth • Wed, 09 Sep 2026
Op-Ed: Microsoft September Patch Tuesday reveals 999 vulnerabilities

Op-Ed: Microsoft September Patch Tuesday reveals 999 vulnerabilities

Microsoft is publishing 974 own-product vulnerabilities on September 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 723 vulnerabilities ...

By Adam Barnett, Lead Software Engineer at Rapid7 • Wed, 09 Sep 2026
Report: Compromised identities a key driver of ransomware attacks across education sector

Report: Compromised identities a key driver of ransomware attacks across education sector

Sophos has found that identity-based techniques were involved in 85 per cent of ransomware attacks against education ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 08 Sep 2026
Exclusive: Verve Portraits data allegedly compromised by Settra ransomware attack

Exclusive: Verve Portraits data allegedly compromised by Settra ransomware attack

Hackers claim to have a “COMPLETE archive of photo studio network operations” belonging to a Sydney-based photography ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 08 Sep 2026
Australia’s proposed digital duty of care bill ‘a global reckoning coming for big tech’, says minister

Australia’s proposed digital duty of care bill ‘a global reckoning coming for big tech’, says minister

Anthony Albanese and Anika Wells announce details of new social media laws, promising platforms could face fines up to ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 08 Sep 2026
If you build it… Tasmania sets the state’s expectations for data centres and AI infrastructure

If you build it… Tasmania sets the state’s expectations for data centres and AI infrastructure

The Tasmanian government has released a draft framework for data centre and AI infrastructure projects, with proponents ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 08 Sep 2026
UNSW to roll out new learning platform to enable responsible use of AI in education

UNSW to roll out new learning platform to enable responsible use of AI in education

UNSW Sydney picks D2L Brightspace to power a multi-year transformation of its undergraduate, postgraduate, and lifelong ...

David Hollingworth • Tue, 08 Sep 2026
Exclusive: Machinery management specialist Macquarrie investigating data breach after ransomware claims

Exclusive: Machinery management specialist Macquarrie investigating data breach after ransomware claims

The Victorian company is the latest victim of Storm ransomware, with an external party once again the attack vector.

David Hollingworth • Tue, 08 Sep 2026
Digital platforms to be targeted as part of NSW crackdown on organised crime operations

Digital platforms to be targeted as part of NSW crackdown on organised crime operations

NSW’s Premier has announced a raft of measures to combat the facilitation of serious crimes, such as gang-related murder

David Hollingworth • Mon, 07 Sep 2026
Kinetic IT brings back ServiceNow veteran to lead service integration

Kinetic IT brings back ServiceNow veteran to lead service integration

Australian technology services provider Kinetic IT has appointed former Fujitsu executive Meg Santos to lead its ...

David Hollingworth • Mon, 07 Sep 2026
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