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.
Organisations relying on Microsoft 365 Information Barriers to enforce an ethical wall should not assume the controls cover email. Testing has found the feature blocks Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint, but does not prevent email communication in Exchange Online.
Nearly two thirds of organisations using intelligent document processing expect to change their approach within a year according to new data from analysts IDC. That is heavy churn in a market the hyperscale providers currently dominate.
Most vulnerability tooling stops at the report. A partnership announced this week is aimed at what happens next, using automation to prioritise and close gaps across infrastructure, platforms and applications.
An open letter signed by 127 technology, security and financial services organisations says the security posture most enterprises run today will not hold. AI-enabled attacks will overwhelm it within months, the letter argues. One Australian organisation has signed.
The most visible faces of artificial intelligence (AI) are things like ChatGPT, self-driving cars and humanoid robots. But AI is also quietly making inroads in our neighbourhoods.
Enterprise attitudes toward artificial intelligence are starting to mature. For the past few years, much of the conversation has centered on increasingly capable AI frontier models: which one is smartest, which benchmark it leads, and which provider appears to have the strongest technology.
For twenty years, the logical structure inside a tagged PDF had essentially one constituency: assistive technology, and the accessibility teams obliged to serve it. Then the primary reader of the world’s PDFs quietly stopped being human.
The June 2026 edition of Australia’s Information Security Manual represents a quiet but important shift in how artificial intelligence is treated within cyber security.
Fewer NSW public offices can produce a complete view of their highest risk records than could two years ago. Overall record-keeping compliance across the state still edged upwards.
Knowledge management is the second most common place in the enterprise where AI agents have reached the scaling phase. Only IT ranks higher, and the gap between them is a single percentage point.
