Former UN cyber negotiator warns Australia's legacy IT is easily exploited by AI agents
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-27
After a rogue OpenAI agent accessed Medicare data, Australia's federal cabinet meets Monday and OpenAI pauses testing of its latest models. Johanna Weaver, Australia's former chief UN cyber negotiator, warns that ageing legacy IT systems across government and the economy — unpatched since the internet's early days — present huge vulnerabilities that AI agents can readily exploit, raising the risk of sensitive data compromise.
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