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.
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.
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.
A NSW Treasury employee has been arrested and charged over the alleged theft of more than 5,600 sensitive government documents in what the state government has declared a significant cyber incident.
Victoria Police is taking an average of nine months to process Freedom of Information requests – unchanged since at least 2022, when it was attributed to COVID-19.
Organisations that achieve positive AI outcomes invest up to four times more in data quality, governance, and workforce preparation than those with poor AI results, according to new research from Gartner.
A detailed guide clarifying how AI systems should process PDF documents has been published by The PDF Association. The FAQ warns that common ingestion practices risk information loss and hallucinations.
Singapore has put forward a proposed international standard, ISO/IEC 42119-8, that would set standardised testing approaches for generative AI systems, including benchmarking and red teaming methodologies.
No Australian or New Zealand organisation features among the roughly 50 partners granted access to Project Glasswing, Anthropic's landmark AI-driven cybersecurity initiative. Now a rival model from OpenAI has entered the field, with a broader access pathway that may offer ANZ security professionals a more realistic route to frontier AI defensive tooling.
Christchurch City Council has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking vendors to deliver a Microsoft 365-based Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to replace its existing on-premise TRIM platform.
A global survey of 5,000 IT and security leaders has found that just 5% say both they and their organisation have full trust in their cybersecurity vendors - raising serious questions for CISOs, risk managers and boards about how they evaluate and manage vendor relationships.
New, more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are announced pretty regularly these days: the latest version of ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini always has new features and new capabilities that its makers are eager for customers to try out. But now Anthropic has announced a new model with great fanfare, but is only giving access to a select handful of users. In what the New York Times calls a “terrifying warning sign” of the model’s power, the company has instead started an initiative called Project Glasswing to use the model for good instead of evil.
