WA man jailed after global Genesis Market shutdown – Security
A Western Australian man has been sentenced to two years in prison after fraudulently using stolen credentials from dark web marketplace Genesis Market. Perth District…
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Vic councils’ after-hours call answering service breached – Security
Several Victorian councils are working to establish their exposure after an after-hours call centre operator was breached. The provider, OracleCMS, acknowledged the incident and said…
X calls takedown orders over Sydney stabbing video “unlawful” – Software
X has flouted orders to remove footage of a stabbing at a church in Sydney’s south west last week, saying Australia’s eSafety watchdog has no…
Powerlink Queensland isn’t giving M365 Copilot to all staff at once – Software
Powerlink Queensland is offering staff access to M365 Copilot upon request and then on a ‘use it or lose it’ basis to ensure the company…
FBI says Chinese hackers preparing to attack US infrastructure – Security
Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow,” FBI director Christopher…
Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams – Software
Google will consolidate teams that focus on building artificial intelligence models across its Research and DeepMind divisions in its latest push to develop its AI…
First law protecting consumers’ brainwaves signed in US – Storage
Colorado governor Jared Polis has signed into law the first measure passed in the US that aims to protect the data found in a person’s…
Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract – Cloud
Google has terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government. The Alphabet unit said a…
IAG gravitates to more SaaS-based applications – Finance – Cloud
Insurer IAG is set to convert more of its application estate to software-as-a-service, favouring that over having applications that are hosted either on-premises or on…
Barbeques Galore starts work on AI roadmap – Software
Barbeques Galore is working to lay data foundations and identify “priority areas” for AI use across its business, formalising its efforts with a new strategy…
Five Australians arrested in global raid on phishing kit seller LabHost – Security
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested five men as part of a global raid on a cyber-criminal gang linked to industrial-scale phishing. The sting…
Microsoft-OpenAI deal set to dodge formal EU merger probe – Software
EU antitrust regulators have concluded that Microsoft’s US$13 billion ($20 billion) investment into OpenAI is not an acquisition, sources familiar with the matter said, signalling…