Macquarie Bank on board with Google Gemini
Macquarie Bank is the first major Australian bank to publicly reveal its plans to adopt Google’s newly-launched business AI offering, Gemini Enterprise. Launched overnight in…
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Google says ‘likely over 100’ affected by Oracle-linked hacking campaign
Google said there were likely to be more than 100 companies affected by an ambitious hacking campaign that targeted Oracle’s suite of business products, an…
Ancient, critical “RediShell” bug menaces thousands of servers
Security research firm Wiz is strongly urging organisations to patch a very serious vulnerability in the Redis database that, if exploited, can grant attackers full…
ANZ Banking Group appoints group CIO
ANZ Banking Group has named its next technology leader following Gerard Florian’s retirement, bringing in an IT executive from HSBC. The bank said that Donald…
Asahi Beverages is continuously refining its HR self-service
Asahi Beverages has adopted a continuous improvement mindset when it comes to HR self-service for its Australian and New Zealand operations, and AI could help…
ACL penalised $5.8m over Medlab Pathology breach
Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) will pay penalties of $5.8 million over a 2022 data privacy breach at one of its subsidiaries, Medlab Pathology. Medlab Pathology disclosed…
Optus used wrong email address to inform gov of Triple Zero outage
Optus sent the first notifications of its Triple Zero outage to a recently-retired and unmonitored government email address, where they went unnoticed for over 24…
Zero trust is the key to effective security in a cloud-ready, firewall-free world
Twentieth century security approaches are no longer fit for purpose. With applications and data distributed more widely than ever and users operating from different locations,…
High Court upholds retrospective legal fix for AN0M surveillance sting
The High Court of Australia has backed a retrospective law covering the validity of evidence collected using a compromised encrypted app named AN0M. A large…
Revenue NSW directed to document its AI risk
Revenue NSW is lagging in its effort to keep risk assessments and documentation for its use of AI and automation in its fines and collections…
Cenitex appoints former Vic DFFH CIO as CEO
Victoria’s whole of government shared services provider Cenitex has appointed former Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) CIO and executive director Andrew Larkin as…
Google DeepMind tackles software vulnerabilities with AI agent
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) division has published details of its CodeMender vulnerability finding agent, which is designed to automatically identify and patch security flaws…