Telco service abuse dominates federal crime in Victoria
Harassment and abuse through a telecommunications service or the internet accounts for more than one-third of all federal crimes sentenced in Victoria’s courts, a report…
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Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York…
US medical device maker Stryker’s Microsoft environment attacked
An Iranian-linked hacking group has claimed responsibility for a destructive cyberattack on US-based medical device and services provider Stryker, according to messages posted to the…
Australian Unity’s ‘shift left’ on code quality and security is just in time for AI
Australian Unity’s efforts to standardise and ‘shift left’ code quality and security checks for all its development activity and codebases have set it up for…
EnergyAustralia’s CIO of almost seven years to leave
EnergyAustralia’s CIO of almost seven years Julie Bale is retiring, with former group CTO of PEXA Eglantine Etiemble appointed as the new tech chief. Outgoing…
Atlassian to cut roughly 1600 jobs
Atlassian will lay off around 10 percent of its workforce, or 1600 employees, to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales. Shares of the enterprise…
Craveable Brands has one eye on AI, and the other on the project failure rate
Craveable Brands, the franchisor for Red Rooster, Oporto, Chicken Treat and Chargrill Charlie’s, sees AI as potentially valuable for customer loyalty and franchisee assistance applications,…
CBA chief impersonated in global investment fraud on Facebook
A sprawling and elaborate investment fraud campaign exploiting paid ads on Meta’s Facebook tried to entrap users with a fake bank scandal featuring the Commonwealth…
Apple patches ‘Coruna’ exploit – iTnews
Apple has backported patches for iOS 15 and 16 devices just this week, with iOS 15.8.7 and iOS 16.7.15 released to address the kernel and…
Coles Group CTO is leaving after a year
Coles Group’s chief technology officer Mike Sackman is exiting the grocery retailer after a year spent in the role. A spokesperson for the retailer confirmed…
Microsoft adds passkey support for Entra ID
Microsoft will make passkey authentication availlable to organisations using Entra ID, and who have users that sign in from Windows devices, starting with a public…
NAPLAN tests disrupted by tech issue on first day
A “widespread” technology issue with the online platform used for NAPLAN standardised testing has forced schools to pause tests on the first day. Around 1.4…