NSW Police firewall admin confronted over WeChat
A NSW Police firewall security administrator of 17 years, who was let go for installing WeChat on a work computer and allegedly “being dishonest” when…
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Licence NSW program in hot water amid cost blowouts and delivery delays
A multi-million-dollar program to modernise NSW’s licensing digital infrastructure is in turmoil amid significant delays and escalating costs. The Licence NSW program was created to…
Hertz confirms exposure in file transfer platform incident
Car rental giant Hertz says Australians’ data “may” have been exposed in a breach of a file transfer platform used by the company. Image credit:…
China accuses US of launching ‘advanced’ cyberattacks
Chinese police in the northeastern city of Harbin have accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) of launching “advanced” cyberattacks during the Asian Winter…
OpenAI touts improved coding, long context comprehension
OpenAI has launched its new AI model GPT-4.1, along with smaller versions GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano, touting major improvements in coding, instruction following, and…
Newmont brings private 5G to its Cadia surface ops
Newmont has replaced wi-fi with private 5G to remotely control dozers working in the tailings area of its Cadia gold and copper mine in western…
Aussie Broadband hunts AI dividends for staff
Aussie Broadband is investigating how AI and automation might assist staff with locating information and tapping internal knowledge sources, freeing up time to engage with…
Queensland transitions to new digital identity system
Queensland has officially retired its legacy digital identity system, QGov, after completing the transition to a “modern digital architecture”. The Queensland Digital Identity (QDI) will…
US excludes smartphones, computers from reciprocal tariffs
The US has granted tariff exclusions for smartphones, computers and other electronics imports supplied largely by China, sparing them from much of President Donald Trump’s…
Cessnock City Council creates CIO role
Cessnock City Council has created a chief information officer role to lead the council’s information technology strategy. In the job posting, the NSW Hunter Valley…
Prospa de-risks loan book by mapping borrower relationships
Prospa, an online lender for small business, has used hackathons and graph database technology to map out complex relationships between directors and entities applying for…
Focus is the key for successful endpoint protection
Compromised passwords, unpatched vulnerabilities and unauthorised applications can all lead to an endpoint being exploited by threat actors. Peter Soulsby, the Head of Cybersecurity at…