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.
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?
Organisations now have days, and sometimes only hours, to patch new vulnerabilities before AI-assisted attackers exploit them, Australia's cyber security agency has warned.
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.
Three years into the generative AI era, most enterprises are failing to convert growing investment and adoption into measurable business impact, according to new research from Forrester.
Western Australian local governments are failing to fix known IT security weaknesses, with 60 per cent of control flaws identified in 2025 carrying over unresolved from prior years.
Three-quarters of organisations are confident in their ability to secure unstructured data - yet more than two-thirds report less than 80% remains unprotected, a new industry survey has found.
When AI agents start taking actions rather than merely answering questions, the integrity of their knowledge source becomes a compliance problem. Knowledge management vendor eGain has released a set of platform connectors designed to anchor Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini CLI, and the Cursor developer environment to a single governed knowledge repository.
Records & Information Management Month 2026 is underway. After years of working with organisations on records and information management, one lesson stands out clearly: if you want records captured, make capture easy.
