Government looks at passwordless access for myGov – Strategy – Security
The federal government intends to change how citizens authenticate to the myGov system from next year, moving to passwordless approaches such as passkeys and facial…
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NAB credits cloud for critical service resiliency – Finance – Cloud
NAB has sought to emphasise resilience gains from cloud migration and unspecified “service improvements”, pointing to a 17 percent reduction in “critical” and “high” rated…
Veeam patches ONE monitoring platform – Security
Veeam has warned against a vulnerability that could give an attacker remote code execution (RCE) on the SQL server of its Veeam ONE monitoring platform.…
Orica reveals early use of Microsoft Copilot – Strategy – Cloud – Software
Orica, a producer of explosives used in sector like mining, has revealed itself as an early user of Copilot artificial intelligence software in Microsoft 365.…
Government steps in to run an Optus post-incident ‘review’ – Telco/ISP
Optus will be subjected to a government-run post-incident “review” after its near full-day telecommunications outage yesterday. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in a statement that…
CBA publishes anti-abuse AI and ML model – Finance – Software
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has open-sourced the artificial intelligence and machine learning model that it uses to detect abusive language in transaction descriptions. The…
Amazon dedicates team to train ambitious AI model – Software
Amazon is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar…
DTA looks for a whole-of-gov approach to generative AI – Strategy – Software
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is set to explore technology options for a whole-of-government approach to generative AI. The agency, which now plays a digital…
Defence restructures ICT function – Strategy
Defence has restructured its ICT function, renaming it as the Defence Digital Group (DDG) and establishing three divisions with oversight of ‘business’ and ‘military’ technology…
Amazon.com previews FTC defence – Strategy
Amazon.com’s top lawyer has previewed the broad outlines of the company’s possible defence against the US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the retailer, at…
Confluence vulnerabilities under active ransomware exploitation – Security
The Atlassian Confluence Data Centre and Server vulnerability first disclosed last week is under active exploitation. Security company Rapid7 said it has seen attackers exploiting…
Optus outage hits banks, hospitals, enterprise users – Telco/ISP
A massive Optus outage that hit mobile and fixed services on Wednesday has impacted many major services, including banking and the health care sector. Banking…