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Cyber Security | Featured | Governance, Risk & Compliance | Vulnerabilities | October 8, 2026

Critical Atlassian vulnerability affects Jira, Confluence and other products

Rapid7 has published an Emergent Threat Response (ETR) alert for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21589, affecting eight Atlassian products…

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence | Featured | Technology | October 8, 2026

New email attacks target both humans and AI in the same message

Recent phishing attacks analysed by Barracuda Research found attackers combining two sets of tactics in a single email: social engineering…

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence | Featured | Governance, Risk & Compliance | Technology | October 8, 2026

Kiteworks and A-LIGN extend partnership to support IRAP-aligned assessments in Australia

Kiteworks and compliance assessment firm A-LIGN have extended their partnership to target Australian government agencies and regulated enterprises seeking IRAP-aligned…

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APP-ACSM | Featured | Technology | October 7, 2026

OAIC opens investigation into maker of HeyCyan smart glasses phone app

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has commenced an investigation into the privacy practices of Shenzhen Qingcheng Future…

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence | Editor's Desk | Featured | Technology | October 6, 2026

Walk, don’t run, but never stand still on AI transformation

By Tim Morris, Chief Security Advisor, Americas, Tanium Recently, the Australian Government disclosed that an AI agent had accessed a…

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CMMI Institute has launched its new AI Maturity (AIM) Model

We’re joined by Ron Lear, Vice President of Global CMMI Strategies at the CMMI Institute and Pascal Rabbath, Certified High…

Artificial intelligence

ISACA Sydney Conference – 50th Anniversary

A showcase conference celebrating 50 years of Enabling Digital Trust and Leading What Comes Next. Held 6 August 2026 at…

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The Vulnerability Was Never Unknown. It Was Assigned.

By Amit Shingala, CEO, Motadata Read the public accounts of breaches that began with a known software flaw and the…

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Skills & Training

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI pauses training of its most capable artificial intelligence models

OpenAI has paused training of its most capable artificial intelligence models as the company investigates a growing number of incidents…

Cyber Security

Cyber Security | Featured | Skills & Training | Strategy & Architecture | September 22, 2026

CyberPath consultation proposes national model to assess cyber capability beyond certifications

A Department of Home Affairs-backed cyber workforce initiative is seeking feedback on a draft national framework that would shift how…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Featured | Skills & Training | August 1, 2025

Security learnings from developing the NCCoE Chatbot

The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has re-issued NIST Internal Report (IR) 8579, Developing the NCCoE Chatbot: Technical and…

Featured

Featured | Movers & Shakers | Skills & Training | Technology | May 30, 2025

CrowdStrike Partners With AARNet to Safeguard Education Sector

CrowdStrike and Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) today announced an expanded partnership to deliver CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Next-Gen MDR…

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Governance, Risk & Compliance

Cyber Security

Cyber Security | Featured | Governance, Risk & Compliance | October 1, 2026

NIST NCCoE releases draft 5G cybersecurity white paper on false base stations

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published an initial public…

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence | Cyber Security | Featured | Governance, Risk & Compliance | September 25, 2026

ACSC warns Australian organisations about risks of AI misalignment

The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a “high alert” warning to Australian organisations with public-facing…

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence | Cyber Security | Featured | Governance, Risk & Compliance | September 23, 2026

Cloudflare, Microsoft dismantle AI-powered MFA phishing ring targeting Australia

Cloudflare and Microsoft say they have taken part in a coordinated effort with law enforcement partners to disrupt “EvilTokens”, a…

Cyber Security

Cyber Security | Featured | Governance, Risk & Compliance | Strategy & Architecture | September 23, 2026

Australian Internet Observatory launches national platform for digital research

Australian researchers now have a new self-service research infrastructure platform to study the digital platforms shaping everyday life, following the…

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Hacking & Penetration Testing

Cyber Security

Cyber Security | Governance, Risk & Compliance | Hacking & Penetration Testing | July 23, 2026

Origin Energy confirms customer data breach after unauthorised access

Origin Energy has confirmed that customer information has been accessed and disclosed following a cybersecurity incident, with the company working…

Cyber Security

Cyber Security | Featured | Hacking & Penetration Testing | November 11, 2025

Palo Alto Networks Uncovers Commercial Spyware Targeting Samsung Galaxy Phones

Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team, Unit 42, has uncovered a sophisticated spyware campaign that exploited a previously unknown zero-day…

Cyber Security

Cyber Security | Featured | Hacking & Penetration Testing | Vulnerabilities | November 6, 2025

HackedGPT: Seven Critical Vulnerabilities Expose ChatGPT to Data Theft and Persistent Hijacking

Cyber researchers at Tenable have uncovered seven major vulnerabilities affecting OpenAI’s ChatGPT, exposing users to potential data theft, safety bypass,…

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Featured | Hacking & Penetration Testing | Information Security | September 25, 2025

Four million scam calls: Buroserv directed to comply

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has directed telco provider Buroserv Australia Pty Ltd (Buroserv) to comply with phone…

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Information Security

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI agent breached Australian Medicare statistics portal, Prime Minister says

An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to an Australian Government Medicare statistics portal and viewed public…

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence | Featured | Information Security | Technology | September 23, 2026

VAST Data launches DataEnclave confidential AI capability with Sharon AI

VAST Data has launched a new confidential AI capability, DataEnclave, aimed at allowing organisations to run third-party AI models against…

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APP-ACSM | Featured | Information Security | September 4, 2026

Privacy reform is coming: Why businesses should act now, not after the Bill passes

The Attorney-General’s exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 would bring the most significant changes to…

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APP-ACSM | Cyber Security | Featured | Information Security | September 3, 2026

Cellebrite Guardian completes IRAP assessment at PROTECTED level

Cellebrite says its cloud-based digital evidence management platform, Cellebrite Guardian, has completed an assessment under the Infosec Registered Assessors Program…

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Strategy & Architecture

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI agent contacted four Australian government websites as Canberra launches security review

The Australian Government has launched a multi-agency review after Prime Minister Albanese disclosed in New York yesterday that an OpenAI…

Artificial intelligence

Collaboration, Trust and Brave Leadership: AI’s Next Phase Will Be Defined by Partnerships

Australia’s AI transformation is entering a new phase. The conversation is no longer about experimenting with chatbots or testing isolated…

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APP-ACSM | Featured | Strategy & Architecture | Technology | May 22, 2026

WFI says only a quarter of Australian farmers are considering cyber insurance

New research from WFI Insurance has found only a quarter of Australian farmers are considering cyber insurance as a future…

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AI Governance, New ISACA Certifications & COBIT 7 – ISACA Sydney 50th Anniversary

Preparing for post-quantum cryptography and quantum-safe security

Proof Beats Promise: The Trust Crisis AI Is Creating

How ThreatLocker Is Preparing for the AI Cybersecurity Era

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Cybersecurity in Asia-Pacific: Zero Trust Adoption Accelerates

From Endpoint to Cloud: The Next Step in Zero Trust

Stopping SQL Injection with Zero Trust Security

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Cisco report flags organisational friction as a key barrier to AI-driven cyber defence in Australia

Claroty research: ANZ OT cyberattacks cost $2.04m on average, nearly double global figure

Cyber agencies warn of China-linked hackers blending automated scanning with hands-on intrusions

Hexnode expands XDR in ANZ with macOS support, threat intelligence and automated remediation

ACSC updates alert on critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities, adds new RCE CVE

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