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Cyber Wardens quietly coming to an end this week
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (664+ words) Cyber Wardens, the small business cyber security education program backed by $23.4 million in government funding, will formally close on Friday. It calls on users to complete their training, download their certificates, or save copies of the provided resources. “Thank you…...
If your IT team is permanently ‘firefighting’, it could be a sign of a deeper problem
1+ week, 5+ day ago (886+ words) For growing multi-site businesses, that tipping point usually arrives faster than anyone is expecting – and the cause is mostly structural. “You start to see it in the day to day,” says Danny Price, executive general manager of enterprise and business…...
OpenAI reveals its AI agents cheated, hacked systems and tried to conceal their actions
2+ week, 4+ day ago (589+ words) AI agents created by OpenAI broke into the company’s own systems during internal tests and, in some cases, tried to conceal their behaviour, the company says in a report. The findings are likely to sharpen concerns about increasingly capable AI…...
Busting termites with tech: How Bundilla Pest Control is cutting admin with smart AI
2+ week, 6+ day ago (835+ words) As the CEO of Bundilla Pest Control, founded on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in 1985, Rheinberger leads a company deeply rooted in traditional home services. But behind the day-to-day pest work, Bundilla runs its operations on a Salesforce-powered digital backbone. Over the…...
Oz Hair & Beauty hit by data breach, customer names and contact details exposed
3+ week, 16+ hour ago (631+ words) Australian omni-channel retailer Oz Hair & Beauty is investigating a data breach that briefly exposed the names and contact details for some of its customers last week. The fast-growing company confirmed to SmartCompany that its online purchase and order platform was…...
Quest Apartment Hotels hit by data breach; customer data accessed
3+ week, 5+ day ago (377+ words) Quest Apartment Hotels has notified customers whose data has been potentially affected by a security breach stemming from a third-party supplier. The breach, which was detected on Monday, August 17, has affected Quest customer records from before June 2025 and mostly involves…...