Seven years’ prison for Australian who sold zero-days to Russia
Peter Williams, the former general manager of United States defence contractor L3Harris’s cyber security arm Trenchant, was today sentenced to seven years and three months…
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Telstra quietly stops LEOsat rollout across remote mobile sites
Telstra has stopped migrating its remote small cell mobile base stations onto low earth orbit satellites backhaul until its constellation provider, Eutelsat OneWeb, can get…
WiseTech Global plans 2000 job cuts in software and operations
Australian logistics software firm WiseTech Global will lay off about 2000 people over the next two years as it adopts artificial intelligence across its software…
CBA to spend $90m to prepare its workforce for AI’s influence
Commonwealth Bank will spend $90 million over the next three years to prepare its workforce of 30,000-plus staff for anticipated changes to roles, primarily due…
Labor orders comprehensive review of triple zero legislation
The federal government will undertake a comprehensive review of emergency calling legislation and rules “imminently” in a bid to restore public faith in Australia’s triple…
Superloop has AI handling most of its customer service
Superloop says that AI now handles most of its customer service, with the number of user interactions its agentic systems manage surpassing that handled by…
Researcher shows physical attack bypassing BitLocker
Showing that physical access to a device can spell “game over” for its security, a Canadian penetration tester has successfully demonstrated a string of attacks…
ASD releases Azul open-source malware analysis tool
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released a tool to store and analyse large amounts of malware samples, aimed at enterprise and government security teams…
How CBA unlocked 90 percent of its customer and transaction data
Commonwealth Bank’s SAP-based core modernisation last year has unlocked about 90 percent of all its customer, account and transactional data, which it now hopes to…
Chinese AI companies ‘distilled’ Claude to improve own models, Anthropic says
Three Chinese artificial intelligence companies used Claude to improperly obtain capabilities to improve their own models, the chatbot’s creator Anthropic said in a blog post…
Vocus taps Amazon Q Developer in AI pilot
Vocus has run an “AI developer tool pilot” project with Amazon Q Developer, reporting productivity improvements and faster validation of ideas for new product features…
Aussie Broadband lifts 2028 strategic “ambition” to 1.5 million customers
Aussie Broadband has revised its strategic ambition for 2028 upward to have 1.5 million NBN broadband customers, half a million more than initially projected. This…