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Meta's Security Oversight Costs Millions in GDPR Penalties

Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined €91 million ($150 million AUD) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing user passwords as unencrypted 'plaintext' on its internal systems. The penalty comes five years after the company first acknowledged the security lapse.

Securing Active Directory for the Five Eyes

New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has joined the Australian Signals Directorate and US, UK and Canada to release joint guidance that aims to inform organisations about 17 common techniques used to target Active Directory, as observed by the authoring agencies.

RACGP says Health Record needs overhaul 

The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) is calling on the Federal Government to overhaul My Health Record to make it fit-for-purpose for patients and GPs after a nationwide survey found 31% of GPs rarely or never use it. 

Victorian agency breaches privacy through use of ChatGPT

The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) has found that the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing failed to take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of personal information and to protect personal information from unauthorised disclosure.

Why Microsoft’s Copilot AI falsely accused court reporter of crimes he covered

When German journalist Martin Bernklau typed his name and location into Microsoft’s Copilot to see how his articles would be picked up by the chatbot, the answers horrified him.

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