IT Brief Australia

1 day ago | itbrief.com.au | Catherine Knowles

QR codes are increasingly being exploited as a cybersecurity threat, with a rise in malicious tactics known as Quishing targeting individuals and organisations. Once considered a symbol of digital convenience, QR codes are now ubiquitous in locations such as restaurants, logistics centres, and advertising materials. However, experts warn that these pixelated patterns are also being used to facilitate phishing attacks and distribute malware.

1 day ago | itbrief.com.au | Moritz Florian

Veeam Software has announced new capabilities that allow artificial intelligence systems to securely access and use data stored in its backup repositories. The development, revealed at the company's annual VeeamON conference, comes through support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard developed by Anthropic.

1 day ago | itbrief.com.au | Moritz Florian

Veeam has launched Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID as a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to support organisations' identity management needs. According to Veeam, Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD, encounters over 600 million attacks daily, making identity protection a key area for enterprises. The new offering is intended to simplify data resilience for Entra ID tenants, enabling organisations to protect assets tied to user identity and access.

1 week ago | itbrief.com.au | Shannon Williams

Tenable has released a new report warning that organisations are increasingly exposed to cybersecurity risks as they adopt open-source AI tools and cloud services at a pace that exceeds their security readiness. According to Tenable's Cloud AI Risk Report 2025, a growing reliance on open-source frameworks and rapidly configured cloud AI services is creating vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and elevated risk of data exposure across cloud environments.

1 week ago | itbrief.com.au | Shannon Williams

Cyber Threat Insure has launched a new cyber liability insurance distribution model targeted at Managed Service Providers (MSPs), with IT First Responder announced as the first partner. The new model aims to fill what Cyber Threat Insure describes as a significant gap in the Australian cyber insurance market by enabling MSPs to provide cyber liability coverage to their clients without incurring the advisory risks traditionally involved in selling insurance products.