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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

a critical issue, and it is present in the Microsoft Windows Server Update Service in Windows Server (versions 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025). “Australian organisations should review their networks for use of vulnerable instances of the Windows Server...

used to connect point-of-sale devices, went end-of-life in August 2021, and the vulnerability was first disclosed in 2019. According to the CVE record, this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution via a specially crafted HTTP request. Cyber...

the personal information of six donors and 5,000 former students and alumni was stolen from data sets between 2010 and 2019. Gower added that the university believes no data has yet been published. “We have found no evidence of misuse but will...

all four LHDs had plans that were “not fit-for-purpose”. With none of the LHDs implementing the NSW Cyber Security Policy (2019) that requires state bodies to “establish, implement and maintain controls” across the ICT and cyber domain, this puts NSW...

catalogue on the day of its publication. This zero-day is a security feature bypass vulnerability impacting Microsoft Office 2019 and has a high severity CVSS score of 7.8. According to Microsoft, “reliance on untrusted inputs in a security decision in...

its mission.” Kinetic IT has been used by the Defence’s ICT sector since its first contract for an ICT Service Desk in 2019, providing technological and digital support to “mission-critical environments”. “This agreement recognises the strength of our...

FreePBX said in November. “An attacker could leverage this to obtain remote access to the system as the asterisk user.” CVE-2019-19006 is an incorrect access control vulnerability impacting Sangoma FreePBX 115.0.16.26 and below, 14.0.13.11 and below,...

and the court found that FIIG had failed to adequately protect its customers’ data over a four-year period between March 2019 and June 2023. FIIG Securities was also ordered to pay $500,000 to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC),...