Super Funds Seek to Coordinate Sector's Cyber Threat Response
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for a five‑year licence to operate the Superannuation Cyber and Financial Crime Exchange (SuperFCX), a dedicated threat‑intelligence sharing platform for the sector. The platform will let members exchange data on threat trends, tactics, technical indicators and active incidents while explicitly excluding any competitive or commercial information. The initiative follows a credential‑stuffing campaign in early 2025 that cost about A$750,000 (≈ $0.5 million) and exposed the lack of a trusted communication channel among funds that manage roughly A$4.5 trillion (≈ $3 trillion) for 18 million Australians. ASFA’s broader SC3 framework also proposes an incident‑response playbook, regular exercises and specialist working groups to improve coordination.
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ITnews to Bring Security Leaders Together for State of Security Breakfast Roadshow
iTnews is launching its inaugural State of Security Breakfast Roadshow in Brisbane on June 18, gathering more than 50 senior IT and security executives to discuss findings from its State of Security report released April 30. The breakfast will focus on three...
Essential Energy Turns to AI for Safety Inspections
Essential Energy is rolling out an AI system that mines field‑worker comments on iPads to flag safety issues across its 900,000‑premise network in NSW and southern Queensland. Early tests show the AI can identify safety‑related data in 76% of cases,...
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ITnews Cloud Covered Breakfast Summit Heads to Sydney
The iTnews Cloud Covered Breakfast Summit is moving from Perth to Sydney on June 4, where senior technology leaders will examine how public cloud is evolving to support AI workloads. Powered by Microsoft and Dicker Data, the event will focus on...
Superloop Puts Functional Separation Bid to ACCC
Superloop has applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for approval of a joint functional separation undertaking following its $165 million (≈ $109 million USD) acquisition of Lynham Networks. The proposal would split Lynham into a wholesale‑only network provider while keeping...
Wireless Broadband Alliance Claims Wi-Fi Security on a Par with Cellular
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) released a new Wi‑Fi security framework that it says puts Wi‑Fi on equal footing with cellular networks in terms of security. The guidance consolidates standards such as WPA3, OpenRoaming (Passpoint) and RadSec, covering authentication, encryption,...
Fintel Alliance Starts Planning Its Next-Gen Analytics Hub
Australia’s Fintel Alliance – a coalition of banks, regulators, police and gambling operators – is redesigning its collaborative analytics hub (CAH) to handle larger, real‑time financial‑crime monitoring. The existing hub, first deployed in 2024, proved its concept by uncovering hidden...
Eventbrite's New Owner Cuts Staff After Takeover
Italian tech firm Bending Spoons completed its March acquisition of Eventbrite, valuing the ticket‑selling platform at roughly $11 billion. Within weeks, the new owner cut a large portion of the U.S. workforce and rolled out product upgrades aimed at faster event creation,...
Dead Cars Tell Tales by Storing Data That's Never Wiped
Security researchers at Quarkslab dissected a telematics control unit from a salvaged BYD Seal and found that the device stores raw GPS logs for the vehicle's entire lifespan. The data, kept on unencrypted NAND memory, revealed the car’s journey from...
Optus Strengthens Spectrum Strategy Expertise
Optus has hired Golnar Khomami, a former Telstra spectrum strategist, as senior director of network technology standardisation. Khomami will report to Kent Wu and lead Optus's engagement with international spectrum standards bodies. The move follows a series of senior tech...
SE Qld Councils to Collaborate on Common Data, ID Foundations
South East Queensland’s 12 mayors released a collaborative digital plan that sets a roadmap for foundational digital infrastructure by 2035. The immediate focus is on building a common data environment, a regional digital identity system, and upgraded connectivity to enable...
St Vincent's Group Chief Digital Officer Leaves After over Four Years
St Vincent’s Health Australia’s group chief digital officer, Michelle Fitzgerald, is leaving after more than four years. Her tenure saw the rollout of Meditech’s electronic medical record across ten private hospitals and the launch of a self‑service analytics platform. The departure...
NDIS Commission to Have a New Intelligent Risk Engine by August
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission will roll out the core capabilities of an intelligent risk engine by August, as part of its four‑year, $160 million AUD (≈$105 million USD) Data and Regulatory Transformation (DART) program. The decision‑support tool will generate explainable...
Australian Payments Plus Continues "Operating Model Harmonisation"
Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has consolidated its IT, risk and customer service functions onto a single ServiceNow instance, creating a unified digital front door for its three core businesses—BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia. The move merged previously separate ServiceNow...
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The Death of Standing Privilege in the Age of AI Agents
Privileged Access Management (PAM) teams have reduced standing privileges, yet identity‑related breaches still affect 74% of organizations. A new survey of 200 CISOs reveals that 86% do not enforce policies for AI identities, only 17% treat them like human users,...
