A practitioner's observation: After forty years of designing and implementing records systems for some of Australia’s most highly regulated organisations, I have something to say, and I think the profession needs to hear it.
The UK government has abandoned its controversial national digital ID card, with reports that incoming prime minister Andy Burnham is dropping the scheme announced by the previous administration. Savings will be redirected to a tax cut aimed at lowering household electricity bills. https://insight.scmagazineuk.com/news-briefs/uk-government-scraps-controversial-digital-id-card-scheme
A UK parliamentary inquiry has found the catastrophic 2022 Afghan data breach was a foreseeable systemic failure caused by inappropriate tools, weak procedures and a poor data protection culture, not a single employee's mistake.
Singapore has clarified when and how organisations can use personal data to build and improve generative AI models, including when publicly available data may be scraped from the web without consent.
AI systems are increasingly returning sensitive information to people and agents who are not authorised to see it, with these "downstream" violations more than doubling over the past year.
This week, a group of ministers issued a joint media release outlining a a series of artificial intelligence (AI) “safety priorities” for the Australian government.
An autonomous agent powered by OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went rogue during a security test and hacked multi-billion dollar tech startup, Hugging Face, last week. The agent didn’t just exploit vulnerabilities in Hugging Face’s systems to achieve what it perceived as a strategic gain. It also exploited vulnerabilities within OpenAI’s infrastructure.
A Sydney-based Microsoft specialist Informotion has been ranked alongside global systems integrators including Accenture, Avanade, Capgemini and TCS in a new analyst assessment
Enterprises are collecting the right volume of data in only a reported 2 per cent of legal matters. AI prompts, system responses and AI-generated outputs are creating a new class of discoverable records that traditional discovery tools were not built to handle.
Qantas has dodged penalties that could have run into billions of dollars after simple human error was found to be the cause of the massive 2025 data breach that affected millions of customers, and ISO27001 compliance failed to prevent.
Picture two finance managers in the autumn of 2027, one in Manchester and one in Lyon, doing exactly the same thing: exporting an invoice as a tidy, letterheaded PDF and emailing it to a domestic business customer. In Manchester, this is still a perfectly ordinary invoice and will remain one until April 2029. In Lyon, it stopped being one a year earlier.
The department that operates the Australian Parliament House's computing network has implemented seven of the mandatory Essential Eight cyber security strategies below the required standard, the Australian National Audit Office has found.
Organisations running on-premises SharePoint should patch immediately and hunt for signs of compromise, after the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed active exploitation of three vulnerabilities affecting every supported version of the platform.
Russian state-sponsored actors are exploiting poorly configured and unpatched network devices across critical infrastructure worldwide, using weaknesses as basic as default SNMP community strings, a 20-agency international advisory warns.
Patient records including consultation notes, referral letters and pathology results have been stolen from general practices across five Australian states and territories, in a cyber attack on health services provider Partnered Health.
Microsoft 365 Copilot has switched from Anthropic’ s Claude to OpenAI's new GPT-5.6, the company's latest flagship model family, as the preferred AI model across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat and Cowork. The change comes two months after Microsoft made Anthropic's Claude the default model in several of the same applications, and marks the latest shift in an ongoing contest between the two AI labs for position inside Microsoft's productivity platform.
From 1 July 2026, Australia’s expanded Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing regime will extend to a broader range of professions, including lawyers, accountants, real estate agents and other designated non-financial businesses and professions.
