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Financial services licensees are answerable for the cyber resilience of their authorised representatives, not just their own systems. Fortnum Private Wealth has been ordered to pay a $A1.35 million penalty for failing to manage cyber risk across its advice network.

The password "123456" has let an attacker into Denmark's national population register resulting in names, addresses and ID numbers for about 8.8 million people being exposed.

Tracking who and what can reach sensitive files is about to sit inside one of the largest email and human-risk security platforms. Proofpoint has agreed to buy Varonis for about $US6.3 billion as AI agents gain broad access to corporate data.

Sixty per cent of Australian workers have personally spotted an error made by an AI tool at work. Almost half say the most significant error they saw had consequences beyond minor inconvenience, including financial, compliance or reputational impact.

Copilot will be able to read, organise and change files on Windows PCs with user permission, under a Microsoft plan to split AI work between the device and the cloud.

An internal AI agent at Bunnings has saved staff half a million hours of administrative work, according to Google, as parent company Wesfarmers deploys agents across its retail portfolio. The figure was cited at Google Cloud's Gemini at Work 2026 event, where the company announced the Gemini agent, a single agent for knowledge work, content creation and coding. 

The NSW Audit Office is building a central platform to collect general ledger, journal and payroll data directly from state agencies. Around 180 agencies are due to be onboarded by 30 June 2027.

Customer requests made by voice or chat could soon flow straight through to back-office execution on a single agentic automation platform.  Automation Anywhere has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Boost.ai, an enterprise conversational and voice AI company, from Nordic Capital. 

Working out exactly what personal information was exposed in a data breach, and whose, is the slow middle step of incident response. Epiq has bought a platform built to automate it.

Agents that work out which AI regulations and standards apply to a system, then test whether its controls work, are coming to Collibra's governance platform, following the acquisition of trail ML, a Munich-based company founded in 2023.