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  • Origin Breach Takes Twist as Hacker Claims Settlement

    The alleged hacker who claimed access to two million Origin Energy customer records says a private settlement has been reached with the company and no data will be published. Origin has separately confirmed that customer data was accessed and disclosed.

  • Report Warns Discovery Cannot Handle AI Data

    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.

  • How One Phone Call Exposed 5.7M Qantas Records

    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.

  • The UK says a PDF is not an invoice. France just made it one

    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.

  • Parliament House Falls Short on Essential Eight

    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.

  • New SharePoint Exploits Prompt US Government Warning

    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.

  • Global Warning on Russian Router Attacks

    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.

  • Health Data stolen from National GP Network

    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.

  • OpenAI Wins Back the Copilot Default - For Now

    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.