Health’s data modernisation on GCP reaches $32.8m
Key points The Department of Health & Aged Care has signed $13 million in new contracts, taking its data modernisation...
AndyC
Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.
Anthropic opens its most powerful AI models to more security teams
Anthropic is expanding a program that allows vetted cyber security professionals to test its most powerful AI models with fewer...
Atlassian Data Centre products hit by unauthenticated file access vulnerability
Key points Atlassian has fixed CVE-2026-21589, a critical flaw rated 9.3 on the CVSS 4.0 scale that lets unauthenticated attackers...
How David Jones, Canva and others are putting agentic AI to work
Workato will host its flagship conference World of Workato (WOW) at ICC Sydney's Pyrmont Theatre on 13 and 14 October...
CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Fixes Exchange Server Flaw For Which Exploitation Is More Likely
CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Fixes Exchange Server Flaw For Which Exploitation Is More Likely Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026 Microsoft released emergency...
Tech jobs decline as US hit with rising costs and economic instability
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> IT positions across all industries fell by about 6,000 in September, a sharp...
Apple’s AI privacy trick could be the compromise the EU needs
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> The protections built into Siri Recap may hint at how Apple had hoped...
FBI Drops Accenture Contractor After Sensitive Data Breach
FBI Drops Accenture Contractor After Sensitive Data Breach Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026 Accenture lost an FBI contract after a...
Dell Urges Customers to Patch Critical DSU Flaw That Can Give Attackers Root Access
Dell Urges Customers to Patch Critical DSU Flaw That Can Give Attackers Root Access Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026 Dell...
ClingSTUN Linux Backdoor Abuses Public STUN Infrastructure
ClingSTUN Linux Backdoor Abuses Public STUN Infrastructure Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2026 Fortinet details ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor exploiting unpatched...
Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot
Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot 404Media is reporting (alternate link) that a cyber-weapons arms manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability...
How to build a ‘safe-to-fail’ culture for IT teams — and why you should
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Removing workers’ fear of failure and providing a secure environment for experimentation can...
LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings
Swati KhandelwalOct 06, 2026Vulnerability / Open Source A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code...
Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies
The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms,...
Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers
The Hacker NewsOct 06, 2026Supply Chain / Artificial Intelligence In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the...
