A global Microsoft 365 outage has disrupted Teams, Outlook, SharePoint and a range of compliance services since early Friday morning, Australian time. The disruption hits the core of how Australian and New Zealand government and industry work. Microsoft Teams is the major collaboration platform across both sectors in the region.
Agencies that switch on Microsoft 365 Copilot may need their own controls to meet records obligations. New federal guidance warns the service can influence official work without preserving the prompts, outputs or context behind it.
A Commonwealth contract that banned offshore access to court data did not stop overseas transcribers reaching it. Australia's privacy regulator says the fault lay in an access-control error, not in the contract.
Attackers have begun running intrusions through AI coding assistants already approved on a victim's device. Their commands then inherit the trust the organisation gave the tool.
AI is often discussed in terms of what it might replace. But perhaps we’re asking the wrong question. What if its real value is not replacing human expertise, but extending what skilled people are capable of?
Hackers have stolen around US$6.3 billion (£4.7 billion) from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, most of which was taken in under an hour. According to Binance, the attack exploited systems and individuals with the authority to carry out transactions involving such large sums.
John Edwards, the New Zealand-born former privacy regulator, has resigned as UK Information Commissioner after a workplace investigation into his conduct toward staff.
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found two health service providers breached privacy law by collecting sensitive health information through third-party tracking pixels without consent.
New Zealand telco One NZ has credited a new deployment of UiPath Maestro as a victory over the challenge of transforming legacy-heavy operations at scale without a costly infrastructure overhaul.
Seventy percent of organisations say less than half their unstructured data is discoverable and usable for analytics or AI, according to new research from analyst firm BARC. The finding lands as enterprises push AI agents into production on top of documents, emails and images they cannot fully see.
Google Cloud has released the Open Knowledge Format, an open specification for the context and curated knowledge that AI agents need to work accurately.
Cybersecurity agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States issued a call to action on Monday for cyber defenders. The message was clear: artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful weapon for cyber attackers; defenders must act urgently to improve their cyber defences.
There is a very real risk the AI revolution could cause an international catastrophe within five years, a panel of 272 experts has found. The experts defined catastrophe as more than one million deaths, more than $ US100 billion in losses, or civilisation-scale damage to democracy or privacy.
A ransomware attack on Australia's second-largest sugar producer has shut two Queensland mills, the latest blow to critical infrastructure as attacks on essential industries climb.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has opened national consultation on the evolution of the Essential Eight, its flagship cyber security framework.
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has released version 4.1 of its Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM), the first major revision since 2012. The update arrives as organisations confront AI adoption, expanding privacy obligations and growing pressure to coordinate information decisions across departments.
