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Australia news live: Home Affairs orders ‘rapid’ stocktake of government cyber-systems after OpenAI hack

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Australia news live: Home Affairs orders ‘rapid’ stocktake of government cyber-systems after OpenAI hack

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OpenAI’s Medicare breach has prompted a government-wide assessment of cyber systems to bolster Australia’s public sector against further AI threats – deliberate or not.

Home affairs directed all government departments and agencies to undertake a “rapid” stocktake of legacy systems, to formulate risk management for legacy technology and to report their compliance back to the department.

We can’t wait for an old system to fail before replacing it. We need to identify vulnerabilities and deal with them before they can be exploited.

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Originally reported by The Guardian. Read the full story at the original source.