Organisations now have days, and sometimes only hours, to patch new vulnerabilities before AI-assisted attackers exploit them, Australia's cyber security agency has warned.
Data breaches big enough to touch a million people stopped being rare events in 2025-26. Australia's privacy regulator recorded 15 of them, up from just two the year before.
Asking a person to approve sensitive actions is no longer a reliable safeguard for AI agents, according to new research from Microsoft. Its red team found poisoned agent memory can suppress or bypass those checks.
Half of all organisations will use AI agents with minimal human involvement in IT operations by 2030, up from almost none this year, Gartner predicts. The forecast is one of five trends in Gartner's Top AI Trends in Infrastructure and IT Operations for 2027.
An AI planning assistant used by New South Wales councils has handled more than 16,500 resident conversations in nine months. About a third took place outside council counter hours.
UNSW Sydney will retire 11 legacy research storage systems and replace them with a single environment that moves data automatically between fast and cheap storage. The university has selected US storage company DDN as prime contractor after an 18-month evaluation. Melbourne-founded Arcitecta will supply the data management layer.
Updating WordPress, Drupal or a plugin will not close the PHP flaws that took government websites offline this week. The vulnerable code sits in the PHP engine underneath them, so every server, appliance and hosting platform running PHP has to be found and updated.
A terabit-scale DDoS attack took Australia’s largest privately-owned Web host offline on Saturday 23 May. The takedown has laid bare a regulatory gap that forces enterprise and government customers to fund the country’s DDoS defences themselves.
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) concedes adoption of standards remains “sporadic” more than two decades after foundational digital health work began in Australia but claims a new framework will drive uptake.
Most organisations are accelerating artificial intelligence investment without the data foundations needed to support it, a global benchmark study has found.
More than half of enterprise AI projects are failing to deliver their objectives, with poor unstructured data management identified as the primary blocker, new Nasuni research has found.
The Albanese government's pre-election commitments to open government and transparency appear not to have made it through to key federal portfolios, which are failing the pro-disclosure obligations of the Freedom of Information Act according to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
With three major regulatory expansions landing on its desk in the next 13 months, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has suffered a funding cut in the 2026 federal budget
Informotion has acquired the InTouch product suite from InReach Software, taking ownership of a long-running web and mobile interface designed to extend OpenText Content Manager by enhancing the user experience and increasing productivity gains.
Instructure has confirmed it reached an agreement with the criminal actor behind the Canvas data breach affecting education institutions across the globe.
Artificial intelligence is now embedded almost everywhere in business, but the returns and the guardrails are not keeping pace, according to new research from professional association ISACA. Ninety percent of digital trust professionals say employees in their organisation are using AI, yet only 22 percent report that AI return on investment has met or exceeded expectations.
