VicRoads to phase out passwords in favour of passkeys

VicRoads is set to phase out passwords for its registration and licensing services as part of an effort to strengthen cyber security and streamline access for its 5 million users. VicRoads’ Igor Gjorgjioski at the AWS Public Sector Symposium The consortium-run organisation has begun rolling out passkey authentication across its digital platforms, including the myVicRoads […]

Sydney Zoo uses Microsoft Fabric to underpin data modernisation

Sydney Zoo is streamlining its data architecture, using Microsoft Fabric to consolidate multiple siloed databases into a unified analytics platform. The zoo, which opened in 2019, is transitioning from its Azure SQL managed instance with multiple separate databases to a modern data architecture built on Fabric’s lakehouse and semantic model capabilities. The implementation is part […]

Salesloft hacked via GitHub and AWS in March, Mandiant finds

Google-owned security firm Mandiant has determined the root cause for the expanding breach of AI-powered marketing platform Salesloft, whose artificial intelligence chat agent Drift was used by threat actors to compromise Salesforce instances. Mandiant’s investigation shows that the threat actor accessed the GitHub code repository account of Salesloft, from March through to June 2025. The […]