of Windows Server receive patches. In place of patches, admins for older Windows products such as Windows 10 and Server 2019 receive another implicit reminder that Microsoft would strongly prefer that everyone upgrade. Remote Access Connection Manager:...

by evidence,” in paragraphs 25 and 26. However, the consent orders issued by Federal Court Justice Jennifer Davies in the 2019 case don’t actually contain a paragraph 25 or 26. Another quote was attributed to paragraph 30, but actually appeared in...

shopping searches. Google was fined €2.42 billion (roughly A$3.83 billion at the time, A$4.32 billion now). Then, in 2019, the commission once again fined Google for blocking ads displayed by competitor advertising companies on publisher search result...

Asia-Pacific regarding agreements the search giant made with Australia’s largest telcos: Optus and Telstra. Between December 2019 and March 2021, both telcos agreed to pre-install Google Search on Android devices to the exclusion of other search...

languages. It also needs to integrate with Microsoft development environments such as Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2019 and 2022. Most notably, any code processed by the AI cannot be used to train the model further, with the ATO citing privacy...

advantage.” CyberCX is one of Australia’s largest cyber security firms. Headquartered in Melbourne and established in 2019, the company boasts a workforce of about 1,400 and operates security operations centres across Australia and New Zealand. The...

customers in relation to the headline-making 2022 data breach. The OAIC alleges that in the period from around 17 October 2019 to 20 September 2022, Optus “seriously interfered with the privacy of approximately 9.5 million Australians”. The OAIC...

to calculate and back pay an employee who worked full-time on the company’s IT helpdesk. The employee worked between August 2019 and August 2022. The employee contacted the Fair Work Ombudsman regarding the lack of pay, after which the Ombudsman...

used by a variety of organisations. Patches have started to roll out late on July 20, including fixes for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Subscription Edition. A patch for SharePoint Server 2016 is not yet available but is expected to be released...

government agencies. In 2021, ninety-two per cent of agencies had conducted cyber security training, up from 70 per cent in 2019. Ninety per cent had conducted awareness exercises in 2022, and in 2024, twelve per cent of reviewed agencies had not...

Cybercrime Coordination Centre. AFP Commander Graeme Marshall said that cryptocurrency ATMs – which have risen from 23 in 2019 to more than 1,800 across Australia in 2025 – are a common point of transfer for scammers. “Victims are being manipulated into...

remained largely the same, with a 1.4 per cent average increase. Microsoft Japan also moved to a four-day work week in 2019, resulting in a productivity increase of 40 per cent. However, AI companies advertise their products to companies with the...

program and its military nuclear program,” with the sanctions mentioned referring to those placed on the bank by the US in 2019 after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal it had with Iran, which would limit the Iranian nuclear program. In return, Iran...

program and its military nuclear program,” with the sanctions mentioned referring to those placed on the bank by the US in 2019 after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal it had with Iran, which would limit the Iranian nuclear program. In return, Iran...

program and its military nuclear program,” with the sanctions mentioned referring to those placed on the bank by the US in 2019 after withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal it had with Iran, which would limit the Iranian nuclear program. In return, Iran...

of dollars of unexpected debt, and some were pursued by debt collectors, in some instances, for years.” Between August 2019 and July 2023, staff at 16 Optus stores from around the country sold contracts in breach of consumer law to 400 customers. Staff...

victim of a crime, they don’t know how to report scam activity, or they feel embarrassed because they were scammed.” Since 2019, the number of crypto ATMs in Australia has increased from 23 in 2019 to more than 1,600 in 2025. With more ATMs, more...

ordered that assets totalling more than $4.5 million be forfeited, including a waterfront home in Beachmere, Queensland, a 2019 black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and 24.99454224 bitcoin. The funds will go toward supporting law enforcement measures. “The...

of CVE-2024-30051, a previous zero-day EoP vulnerability in DWM. Today, all current versions of Visual Studio 2022 and 2019 receive patches for CVE-2025-32702, a zero-day RCE where exploitation requires the user to download and open a malicious file....

securely provided software updates are critical to maintaining their integrity. In recent years, hacking contests like the 2019 Voting Village at DEF CON have exposed vulnerabilities in voting machines, pressuring manufacturers to improve security....