Home Affairs to unleash AI on sensitive government data

The Department of Home Affairs has started laying the security groundwork needed to allow federal departments and agencies to use generative AI on sensitive information and records. In recent months the department has been meeting with companies involved in the government technology supply chains to explain policy directives designed to ensure that departments and agencies […]

South Korean police probe massive data leak at Coupang

South Korean police are tracing IP addresses and looking into possible tech vulnerabilities at Coupang after the ecommerce giant suffered the country’s worst data breach in over a decade. The personal data of more than 33 million customers was leaked in a breach believed to have started on June 24 through overseas servers, though the […]

Watt flags more fed insourcing after BoM website outrage

Federal environment minister Murray Watt has flagged increased insourcing of management of major government contracts in response to public outrage over the Bureau of Meteorology’s handling of its website overhaul. At $96.5 million, the final bill for the website was well over original estimates after the contract for its overall build was amended ten times […]