Victoria University hunts for new CISO – Security
Victoria University is on the hunt for a new chief information security officer following an initiative to converge its campus digital and infrastructure functions. Its…
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Data breach costs slowly abating for Medibank – Strategy – Security
Medibank has predicted a full-year 2024 cost of between $30 million and $35 million arising from the ongoing response to its 2022 data breach, as…
WA Police opens command centre in Telstra exchange – Networking – Telco/ISP
WA Police Force is now operating a central command centre out of Telstra’s Wellington Street exchange tower in Perth. In what is being touted as…
NT Police announces completion of long-running upgrade – Strategy – Software
The Northern Territory’s long-running SerPro case management system rollout is complete, with the government announcing it is now in use by police across the territory.…
Google to pause Gemini AI model’s image generation of people – Software
Google is pausing its AI tool that creates images of people following inaccuracies in some historical depictions generated by the model, the latest hiccup in…
ADHA makes John Borchi its permanent CTO – Strategy – Training & Development
The Australian Digital Health Agency (AHDA) is recruiting a new chief information security officer (CISO) following John Borchi promotion to chief technology officer. Borchi had…
Gov back in data breach ‘top five’ after near three-year absence – Security
An uptick in data breaches caused by human error places government agencies back in the ‘top five’ sectors by breach numbers for the first time…
ConnectWise patches critical ScreenConnect vulnerability – Security
ConnectWise has disclosed two vulnerabilities, one critical, in its ScreenConnect remote desktop application. The critical bug, CVE-2024-1709, was described by security company Horizon3 in an…
Qantas embarks on three-year technology upgrade – Software
Qantas is set to make a “multi-million dollar investment in new technology” over the next three years that will particularly go into enhancing its digital…
Colonial First State sees GenAI making financial planning accessible – Finance – Software
Colonial First State sees a future role for generative AI in cutting through the complexity and cost of financial planning, making good advice more accessible.…
Tangerine Telecom says customer data of 232,000 affected by ‘cyber incident’ – Security – Telco/ISP
Tangerine Telecom, a challenger retail service provider, says a “legacy” customer database containing details of 232,000 current and former customers was accessed by an unknown…
VMware client plug-in has critical vulnerability – Security
A deprecated authentication plug-in for VSphere, the enhanced authentication plug-in (EAP), carries two vulnerabilities, one critical, and should be disabled by users. EAP provided Windows…