Kmart Australia’s use of facial recognition breached privacy
Kmart Australia breached the privacy of potentially “hundreds of thousands” of individuals when it used a facial recognition technology system to detect refund fraud over…
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NSW gov third party-linked cyber incidents quadruple in two years
Cyber incidents linked to third-party systems used by the NSW government have more than quadrupled over the past two years, figures obtained by iTnews reveal.…
Microsoft outs Nigerian as RaccoonO365 PhaaS boss
The Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) at Microsoft said it has disrupted a global phishing operation called RaccoonO365, uncloaking the leader of the criminal gang behind…
FileFix attack tricks users into running image-borne malware
A new social engineering “hack yourself” attack that tricks victims into executing malware through seemingly innocent file upload processes has been discovered by backup and…
UNSW to offer ChatGPT Edu to 10,000 staff
UNSW Sydney has bought 10,000 licences of ChatGPT Edu for all fixed-term and permanent staff, in what’s being touted as the “biggest education deal” with…
EPA Victoria hones its strategic workforce planning
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria is using SAP SuccessFactors to underpin a strategic workforce planning initiative, assembling a “talent pool” capable of meeting its current…
NSW shakes up core technology outsourcing model
The NSW government is to overhaul how it sources and manages whole-of-government infrastructure and core technology services, in a move that will shake up two…
Effective resilience requires more than just security tools
Ever-improving security tools have become critical to ensuring business resilience, but a technical expert has warned that many companies are actually compromising business resilience and…
First npm worm “Shai-Hulud” released in supply chain attack
A new supply chain attack on npm, the node package manager, has injected the first malware with self-replicating worm behaviour into the JavaScript software registry, security…
Gov wants ‘minimally invasive’ age checks for teen social media ban
Australia urged social media platforms to employ “minimally invasive” methods to check the age of users covered by its world-first teen social media ban, including…
Medibank targets central system to handle people queries
Medibank has gone live with SuccessFactors-powered enterprise service management, with the ambition to set it up as a single system to handle “people queries” and…
Woodside Energy sets up a unified enterprise data platform
Woodside Energy has used the past few years to set up Snowflake as a unified data platform for both structured and time-series data, moving off…