Biden to ban US sales of Kaspersky software – Security
The Biden administration will announce plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Labs in the United States, a person familiar…
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CDK cyber outage hits US auto dealers – Security
A cyber outage at retail technology and software provider CDK has entered its second consecutive day, impacting automobile dealers across the United States. “The CDK…
Queensland’s CS Energy gears up for SAP upgrade – Software
CS Energy is planning a major technology and business uplift starting with a migration from its legacy SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP). The Queensland government-owned…
Optus breach allegedly enabled by access control coding error – Security – Telco/ISP
A coding error in an access control allegedly left an API open to abuse, facilitating the Optus data breach, according to the Australian Communications and…
Australia Post shores up remote access in Azure – Cloud – Software
Australia Post is tightening up remote access security for employees and third parties as it renews a cloud hosting agreement with Microsoft. The national postal…
Bayer looks to AI to combat herbicide resistance faster – Software
Bayer’s crop science division is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence in its battle against crop killing weeds, the company told Reuters. Weeds are growing resistant…
AMD investigating claims its data was stolen in hack – Security
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is looking into claims that the company’s data was stolen in a hack by a cybercriminal organisation. “We are working closely…
Dell assembling racks for xAI’s supercomputer – Hardware
Dell Technologies is assembling half of the racks for the supercomputer that xAI is building, billionaire Elon Musk said in a post on social media…
ANZ joins NAB and CBA on ConnectID – Finance – Security
ANZ Plus customers will be able to reuse their banking identity with certain merchants and businesses via the ConnectID service. ConnectID’s operator Australian Payments Plus (AP+)…
Medibank allegedly missed EDR alerts before data breach – Security
Medibank or its partners allegedly missed or didn’t act on alerts from its endpoint detection and response (EDR) tool before a threat actor stole data…
Treasury seeks legal SaaS solution to replace ‘basic’ SharePoint search – Software
Federal Treasury lawyers are having to rely on SharePoint and Excel to source knowledge and precedents for their “increasing volume” of legal cases. Legal teams for…
Meta must face Australian billionaire’s US lawsuit – Software
A US judge rejected Meta Platforms’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit by billionaire Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest over scam Facebook advertisements that show him…