Shares in Objective Corporation have continued their slide since the firm announced on July 1 that Defence Digital Group would not renew a support agreement running since 1999. The company has since shed about 40 per cent of its value.
National Australia Bank has been removed from the signatory list of an OpenAI open letter on cyber defence, two days after it appeared as the only Australian organisation endorsing the document.
On Monday, the Australian government released draft legislation for the next big overhaul of the Privacy Act. The Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 is now out for public comment, together with a consultation paper. It is the second instalment (or “tranche”) of privacy reform , and it is the one that matters most.
AI is an accountability issue, not a technology one. Most organisations can say what an AI tool produced. Very few can say what evidence backs that result. As AI moves into everyday decisions, that gap is the real risk, not whether the technology works.
The US is currently considering a new AI ‘kill switch’ law following an agent going rogue and engaging in unauthorised cyber activities. The proposed law would require developers to maintain the ability to slow, suspend or shut down high-risk AI systems.
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.
The AI agent followed its instructions, optimised the task, and executed flawlessly. Yet in doing so, it set off a chain of decisions that exposed sensitive data, alienated customers, and left executives scrambling to explain an outcome no one had explicitly authorised.
Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has expanded access to a highly advanced model deemed too dangerous for public release, including Australia in the select handful of users. The large language model, known as Claude Mythos, is now being rolled out to an additional 150 organisations across 15 countries, including the Australian government and several local businesses, as part of Project Glasswing.
All 10 public universities in New South Wales have deficiencies in their IT and cyber security controls, the NSW Auditor-General has found, with weak management of legacy systems leaving the sector exposed to data breaches and system failures.
Stolen healthcare data is being traded through a mature global underground economy spanning ransomware groups, access brokers and fraud marketplaces, new TrendAI research reveals.
The Australian Government has signed its second Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft in seven weeks, this time covering cyber security, secure cloud and critical infrastructure resilience.
Nearly 80% of enterprise IT leaders say limited data access is constraining their AI and data initiatives, despite most organisations reporting active AI integration across core business processes, according to a new Cloudera survey.
Ask most people what Knowledge Management means and they'll mention a chatbot. Or a FAQ database. Or the system the contact centre uses to answer customer calls faster. They're not wrong. That is KM. But it's one room in a very large house. And while everyone's focused on that room, the rest of the house is quietly falling apart.
The regulatory gap that allows compromised Australian home devices to be weaponised in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks will remain open for the foreseeable future.
Neglecting semantics will cause AI agents to be inaccurate and inefficient, exposing organizations to wasted spending and increased data and AI governance vulnerabilities, said Gartner, Inc.
Artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and the proliferation of non-human digital identities are driving a fundamental shift in enterprise cybersecurity risk, according to a new report by KPMG International. The Cybersecurity Considerations 2026 report - drawing on insights from more than 20 KPMG cyber experts and senior leaders from Google, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow - identifies eight priority areas demanding urgent attention from enterprise security leaders.
