Tag: Cybersecurity

Agencies gear up to tackle frontier model AI threats

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal agencies are lining up outside help on frontier AI cyber risk, with a run of procurements for consultants and assessments a sign government is already moving to strengthen...

Small business council urges govt to resurrect Cyber Wardens

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Australia’s peak small business council has urged Canberra to revive its Cyber Wardens training program under the second stage of the national cybersecurity plan and called for more support...

Govt urged to lift cyber with new rules for mid market firms

Posted on   |  by David Allen
A badly needed cybersecurity uplift for Australia’s private sector should begin with new standards that focus on mid-sized firms and tech service providers, the Tech Council of Australia says....

Hamish Hansford on AI, US tech and national security

Posted on   |  by James Riley
As the Department of Home Affairs’ head of national security, Hamish Hansford has access to “exquisite” intelligence with which to identify and better understand worst-case security scenarios. This is...

Defence musters industry talent for cyber reserve

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Australian Defence Force has issued a call to arms for cyber professionals to join a new breed of reserves, providing all-important “surge capacity” as threats from state-based actors...

Its AI hacked a site for days; OpenAI did not notice for a week

Posted on   |  by Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick Cai
The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn’t notice until well after the threat was contained and the...