Vocus positions for role in Meta’s Project Waterworth
Vocus is planning more undersea cable capacity to Australia’s north in a move that appears designed to position it for a role in Meta’s massive…
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Gov commits to digitised traveller arrivals form
The federal government will progressively phase in the use of a digitised incoming passenger form over the next 18 months, following a successful trial. The…
Second alert from ACSC in two months shows unpatched CMS bugs still exploited
The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a second alert on content management systems in two months, warning that attackers are running…
ANZ to trial Swift’s blockchain ledger
Global financial messaging network Swift launched a blockchain-based shared ledger with an initial set of 17 banks including ANZ, as part of a push to…
City of Moreton Bay to trial object detection and AI for traffic flow
City of Moreton Bay in Queensland is set to trial camera and LiDAR technology at intersections to improve traffic flow on its road network. The…
State of Security 2026: Data Security
Case study – Toll Group The rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape has led the global integrated logistics and supply chain company Toll Group to adopt…
CBA to cut 176 technology and engineering roles
CBA is set to cut 176 technology and engineering roles but has refuted a union suggestion that the jobs are being moved to India. The…
CBA to take AI orchestration agent beyond its retail bank
Commonwealth Bank is set to take a central AI orchestration agent used in retail customer support and apply it to other areas of the bank.…
Telstra shifts 25,000 users to Atlassian Cloud in four months
Telstra has farewelled its self-hosted on-premises instances of Jira and Confluence in favour of Atlassian’s managed cloud environment. Kim Krogh Andersen, Telstra Supplied Around 25,000…
US cyber agency using Mythos to audit government code
The US cyber defence agency CISA is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to audit government software, another sign of government enthusiasm for adopting the AI…
Scrutiny of tech vendor risks increasing, says Aegis Cybersecurity founder
Australian organisations are paying more attention to vendor risk, but many still have gaps in how they assess suppliers, protect SaaS data and translate cyber…
SpaceX applies to launch 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites
SpaceX has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for authority to launch and operate up to 100,000 third-generation Starlink satellites, the…