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Report: Data exposure in the financial services sector almost doubles year on year
Despite surging exposure figures, 66 per cent of boards expect their CISOs to guarantee that breaches will not happen.
Boomtown: NVIDIA targets 2GW Australian AI infrastructure buildout by 2027
NVIDIA is working with Australian cloud and AI infrastructure providers on a buildout of up to two gigawatts by 2027, as ...
Act now! Aussie cyber agency warns of active exploitation of Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source vulnerability
The ACSC has said there is a “substantial number of potentially vulnerable instances within the Australian economy”.
Explainer: Why driver’s licences are such a hot cyber criminal commodity
ThreatLocker’s Danny Jenkins explains why scans of identity documents such as driver’s licences are a “master key” to ...
Patch now! Hackers are targeting yet another N-able N-central vulnerability
CVE-2026-86218 is a perfect-10 vulnerability that was only disclosed this month, and exploitation is underway.
Digital duty of care: Experts call legislation ‘long overdue’ as White House issues ‘unequivocal’ warning
Academics welcome the government’s proposed opt-out/opt-in legislation, as Minister for Communications palms off Trump ...
Venezuela could become test case for Chinese AI surveillance, report warns
A new Australian Strategic Policy Institute report warns Venezuela could become one of the first countries outside China ...
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 ...
Op-Ed: Microsoft September Patch Tuesday reveals 999 vulnerabilities
Microsoft is publishing 974 own-product vulnerabilities on September 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 723 vulnerabilities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...