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  • 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.

  • Ageing Systems Leave SA Agencies Exposed, Audit Finds

    Almost half the ICT hardware devices operating across 10 South Australian government agencies qualify as legacy systems, the state's Auditor-General has found. Incomplete asset inventories and inconsistent risk reporting are leaving agencies with reduced visibility of the security risks these systems create.

  • Data Breach Notifications Hit Record Highs

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    Data breach notifications hit record highs on both sides of the Tasman in 2025, with regulators in Australia and New Zealand both pointing to cyber attacks and vendor security gaps as the common thread.

  • Directors Cannot Rely On Automation as a Legal Defence

    Boards need to treat the deployment of agentic AI as a delegation decision rather than a technology purchase, according to a new white paper from the Governance Institute of Australia. Unlike generative AI, which produces outputs for human review, agentic AI systems act on those outputs directly, transacting with customers and executing multi-step workflows with limited human oversight.

  • Agencies Slow To Apply AI To Records Work

    Eighty-seven per cent of Australian Government agencies now use artificial intelligence, but only 15 per cent apply it to information management activities and just 8 per cent use it to create metadata, according to the National Archives of Australia's latest Check-up survey.

  • AIHW Report Exposes Primary Care Data Blind Spot

    Most healthcare encounters in Australia happen in general practice and other primary care settings. Yet this data has historically been excluded from comprehensive, nationally consistent collections, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's flagship Australia's Health 2026 report.

  • Little Progress on Service Victoria Fixes Five Years On

    Victorian government departments have made limited, and in some cases no, progress fixing shortcomings in the state's digital services platform identified five years ago. They also gave the Auditor-General inaccurate reports about the status of their remediation work.

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  • 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.

  • Ageing Systems Leave SA Agencies Exposed, Audit Finds

    Almost half the ICT hardware devices operating across 10 South Australian government agencies qualify as legacy systems, the state's Auditor-General has found. Incomplete asset inventories and inconsistent risk reporting are leaving agencies with reduced visibility of the security risks these systems create.

  • Data Breach Notifications Hit Record Highs

    data breach growth chart

    Data breach notifications hit record highs on both sides of the Tasman in 2025, with regulators in Australia and New Zealand both pointing to cyber attacks and vendor security gaps as the common thread.

  • Directors Cannot Rely On Automation as a Legal Defence

    Boards need to treat the deployment of agentic AI as a delegation decision rather than a technology purchase, according to a new white paper from the Governance Institute of Australia. Unlike generative AI, which produces outputs for human review, agentic AI systems act on those outputs directly, transacting with customers and executing multi-step workflows with limited human oversight.

  • Agencies Slow To Apply AI To Records Work

    Eighty-seven per cent of Australian Government agencies now use artificial intelligence, but only 15 per cent apply it to information management activities and just 8 per cent use it to create metadata, according to the National Archives of Australia's latest Check-up survey.

  • AIHW Report Exposes Primary Care Data Blind Spot

    Most healthcare encounters in Australia happen in general practice and other primary care settings. Yet this data has historically been excluded from comprehensive, nationally consistent collections, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's flagship Australia's Health 2026 report.

  • Little Progress on Service Victoria Fixes Five Years On

    Victorian government departments have made limited, and in some cases no, progress fixing shortcomings in the state's digital services platform identified five years ago. They also gave the Auditor-General inaccurate reports about the status of their remediation work.

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