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.
Customer requests made by voice or chat could soon flow straight through to back-office execution on a single agentic automation platform. Automation Anywhere has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Boost.ai, an enterprise conversational and voice AI company, from Nordic Capital.
Working out exactly what personal information was exposed in a data breach, and whose, is the slow middle step of incident response. Epiq has bought a platform built to automate it.
Agents that work out which AI regulations and standards apply to a system, then test whether its controls work, are coming to Collibra's governance platform, following the acquisition of trail ML, a Munich-based company founded in 2023.
ANZ organisations whose AI projects are stalled by data problems can now buy records governance design and enforcement technology as one package. Sydney-based data governance vendor RecordPoint has signed records and information management consultancy Informotion as a delivery partner across both countries.
More than half of organisations have no defined way to limit what AI agents can access, or simply give agents the same access as humans. Gartner says chief information security officers (CISOs) should now treat every frontier AI deployment as an insider risk.
Phishing emails are now carrying two attacks in one message. One targets the person reading the email; the other targets the AI assistant that summarises, prioritises or acts on it.
A purge of legacy systems across Australia’s federal government would likely cost billions and remains unlikely. Still, the OpenAI Medicare breach has prompted an immediate stocktake of the outdated technology agencies run.
Nearly nine in ten senior executives believe a data sovereignty failure could cost them their jobs. Yet almost two thirds of their organisations have no formal sovereignty strategy, new global research shows.
Free market enthusiasts have long argued that private industry does things more efficiently than government. New research into data breach notifications in Australia provides a stark illustration.
Always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computer are rolling out in ChatGPT. In organisations, they can be issued their own identity and credentials.
