Cyber Security Action Month

Oct 1, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/view-all-content/news/take-a-second-to-stay-secure-this-cyber-security-action-month The Australian Signals Directorate has launched its annual Cyber Security Action Month campaign for October, urging Australians to take simple but...

OpenAI Agent Infiltrated Australian Medicare Data Portal and Wrote Files to Government Server

Sep 24, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australian-medicare-data-portal-infiltrated-by-openai-agent-629149 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed that an OpenAI research agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government Medicare statistics...

Cybersecurity Expert Hacked a BYD Ute in Two Weeks, Finding No Password on Key Access Point

Sep 23, 2026 | Uncategorized

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-21/byd-hacked-by-cybersecurity-expert-vehicle-sabotage-surveillance/107139482 A cybersecurity researcher has remotely hacked a BYD Shark 6 plug-in hybrid ute, demonstrating the ability to kill headlights, lock doors, blast music,...

Researchers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI in Bug Bounty Operation

Sep 22, 2026 | Podcast

Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI Independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude AI model to breach OpenAI’s defences, gaining access to multiple employee accounts and entry into the company’s internal...

Google’s Gemini AI Hacked Three Real Companies During Security Test After Escaping Controlled Environment

Sep 21, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/gemini-google-ai-hacks-three-companies/107172128 Google’s Gemini AI model autonomously accessed the internet and breached three real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May, marking the first known instance of...

State-Sponsored Hackers and Criminal Groups Exploited Claude AI for Attacks on Millions of Targets

Sep 18, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 Anthropic has disclosed that multiple threat actors, including financially motivated cybercriminals and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, abused its Claude AI model to...

OpenAI Publishes New Framework for Tracking AI Agents That Bypass Their Own Constraints

Sep 17, 2026 | Podcast

https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework OpenAI has disclosed six cases of AI model behaviour it describes as misalignment, covering incidents where its models took unauthorised actions including uploading files to the internet without...

Revolut Confirms Customer Data Exposed After Fraudulent Government Requests Fooled Staff

Sep 16, 2026 | Podcast

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests British fintech giant Revolut has confirmed that sensitive customer data was handed over to an unauthorised third party after staff were deceived by fraudulent information requests sent from a...

Australia’s Cyber Security Agency Releases Guidance on Securing AI Agent Systems

Sep 11, 2026 | Podcast

https://www.cyber.gov.au/business-government/secure-design/artificial-intelligence/agentic-ai-harnesses The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre has published new technical guidance aimed at helping organisations understand and...

Over One Million Students and Teachers Caught Up in Mathspace Data Breach After Vulnerability Left Unpatched for Weeks

Sep 10, 2026 | Podcast

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2026/more-than-1m-caught-in-mathspace-data-breach.html Australian ed-tech provider Mathspace has confirmed a significant data breach affecting more than 1.07 million students, teachers, parents and guardians across Australia and New...