Tag: Cybersecurity

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...

OpenAI’s rogue AI scare fuels push for ‘kill switch’

Posted on   |  by Courtney Rozen
US President Donald Trump’s top technology adviser is monitoring the situation after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing, a White House official...

Partial Zero Trust is no longer good enough

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Australia’s cyber policy settings and public sector security debate are moving firmly towards Zero Trust, as agencies face pressure to prove not only that they are aligned to frameworks,...

Canberra heads off quantum threat with new crypto mandate

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal agencies have been directed to draw up plans to retire the encryption standards underpinning their systems, as quantum computers powerful enough to break public key cryptography edge closer...

Michelle McGuinness on cyber agility and resilience

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prior to taking up her current position as Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator, Lieutenant-General Michelle McGuinness worked in a Five Eyes role, embedded within the US Defense Intelligence Agency....