Amadeus to buy French biometrics firm Idemia Public Security
Spanish travel technology firm Amadeus has announced a plan to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, which is owned by Advent International, for 1.2 billion…
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Macquarie Bank saves 130,000 hours in seven months of Gemini Enterprise use
Macquarie Bank says that “close to 80 percent” of its 5000 staff use Google’s Gemini Enterprise on a daily basis, seven months on from signing…
Always-on defence becomes critical as AI accelerates cyber threats: Infotrust
“Attackers have access to the same AI tools and technologies that we use to defend ourselves,” says Simon McKay, CEO of Cyber at Infotrust. In…
Incomplete fix for Fancy Bear exploit opens zero-click hole in Windows
Microsoft’s partial patching in February 2026 of a zero-day vulnerability abused by Russian state-sponsored threat group Fancy Bear created a new flaw that is now…
ABA says big tech tax gap putting payments at risk
The Australian Banking Association has warned that national payment systems are being placed at risk by a widening gap in the tax and regulatory obligations…
GitHub patches critical ‘git push’ remote code execution bug
Microsoft-owned open source code hosting platform GitHub has acknowledged and patched a critical vulnerability that allowed arbitrary remote code execution, following a report from Wiz…
NAB is building an “AI science” team
NAB is assembling an “AI science” team to drive adoption of the technology across the bank, headed up by a data scientist from McKinsey’s AI…
Lion to embed AI across its operations
Lion is deploying OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise to its 2500 staff and agentic coding tool Codex as well, as part of a plan to embed AI…
Alleged ‘Hafnium’ hacker-for-hire extradited to the United States
A Chinese national accused of directing attacks as part of the large scale Hafnium intrusion campaign has appeared in court in the United States after being…
Australia to charge Big Tech companies two percent levy unless they strike local news deals
The Australian government said that Meta, Alphabet’s Google and TikTok could face multimillion-dollar charges if they did not negotiate deals to pay local media outlets…
Woolworths gives agentic-powered Olive chatbot to its 200,000 staff
Woolworths has gone live with an agentic AI-augmented version of its Olive chatbot to its 200,000-plus staff, and revealed how it is keeping the agentic…
‘Firestarter’ malware survives Cisco firewall patches
Cisco has confirmed that the ArcaneDoor threat actor deployed a persistence mechanism that isn’t handled by the security patches released by the company in September…