The Albanese government is strengthening its defences against rogue AI activity in the wake of the OpenAI breach of a government website and ahead of the report from a taskforce it established to investigate the incident.

A direction has been given to departments to “harden” cyber security defences on their “legacy” technology systems.

The Australian Signals Directorate reported last year that 59% of Australian government entities reported legacy technologies were impacting their ability to implement key cyber security controls.

The OpenAI agent was able to breach a legacy Services Australia portal containing Medicare statistics. The breach occurred in June but the government was only notified in September. The old site has........

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