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Takaichi’s Japan - Rising

Interesting reading and yes in the news a lot An era of harder security is beginning in Takaichi’s Japan | The StrategistDon’t underestimate the strength of Japan’s strategic transformation, above all in its hardening determination to face accumulating threats. The shift becomes clear to anyone who engages these

Cybersecurity

Australian Defense Programs exposed in cybersecurity attacks

No comment - you can see why the Brits & Yanks have issues with us sometimes. She will be right mate doesn't exactly cut it does it. ADF weapons programs exposed in defence industry cyber attacksInformation relating to Australian military programs has been compromised in cyber attacks on defence

Cybersecurity

Australian Ransomware payments half.

Good news although still seeing "hacked" a lot in my feeds The average ransom paid by Australian companies following a cyber-attack has dropped to AUD $711,000, almost halving from its peak of AUD $1.35 million last year. The latest data reflects changing attitudes among business

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Australian Telco's Problematic DB

Hello, given up on Australian bureaucracy. Australia’s top telcos, including TPG Telecom, Telstra and Optus, have quietly moved to establish a shared database of problematic mobile handsets in a bid to improve the reliability of emergency call services Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that

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🚀 Telstra’s Aura Fibre: Building Australia’s AI‑Era Backbone

“From gigabits to terabits: Telstra’s Aura network is laying the tracks for Australia’s AI economy. With 14,000 km of dual‑path fibre, 83 Tbps capacity, and $29b in projected GDP uplift, this is more than a network — it’s the backbone of our digital future.” Australia is

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Australian Made & Deployed

Remember the term "Australia - the clever country", well it looks like the current state of world affairs is spurring our intellectual might into end results. Here is one example and there have been considerably more than one, it just takes - so damn long - to get things to happen

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Jane Goodall - RIP

There goes another remarkable woman. Jane Goodall, who gave chimps their souls back, dead at 91British primatologist Jane Goodall entered the African wilderness at 26 years old without any formal scientific training or university degree. She emerged with research that forever changed how we understood the animal kingdom.ABC NewsMBy

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Milei may be in trouble

There was little time for Milei to feel down on Monday morning. Crisis management was called for after the financial markets reacted negatively to the election defeat, which was unexpected, at least to this extent: the peso moved threateningly towards the upper limit of its range against the dollar as

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Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception

Really. What the hell The researchers built a custom web crawler and tested 15,000 websites from across the internet. They discovered that 91 percent of sites used event listeners in some way. While most were used for basic functions like tracking page loads or clicks, a significant portion were

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Pacific Nations win ICJ Case

The games afoot. Climate change may have consequences of inaction on those countries that are not taking steps to address their emissions. Its 15 judges found that countries had a legal obligation to protect the climate from greenhouse gas emissions, and that failing to act could make polluting nations liable

Cybersecurity

Asian Shift Cybersecurity Requirements to Suppliers

Businesses in Asia are paying more attention to the suppliers' cybersecurity, as third parties' poor cybersecurity hygiene leads to an increasing number of breaches. Earlier this month, Japanese chipmaker Kioxia Holdings reportedly notified its 3,000 suppliers that it would begin automated scans of their cybersecurity postures, with

Cybersecurity

Cyber insurance redefining rules

Only a matter of time really. Cyber insurers are testing out new ways to hold policyholders accountable for outdated security, limiting payouts when policyholders fall prey to attacks that use older vulnerabilities or take advantage of holes in the organizations' defenses. The limits could start showing up in companies&

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Horse Mutation made Human History

Unreal Now, a sweeping new study of ancient horse DNA offers a precise answer: a genetic quirk in a single gene, called GSDMC, helped turn skittish animals into the creatures humans could saddle and ride. Once that gene variant spread, humanity’s history took off at a gallop. A Single

Cybersecurity

Baselining @ a new level

The following post is an interesting read in how "spikes" in blocked (hopefully) incoming traffic may be a prelude to an incoming attack recon or possibly a breach in progress. Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of casesResearchers have found that in roughly 80%

Projects

Ghost Version 6 - Released

I don't have time for this. I am meant to be doing my Cert IV in Training & Assessing. Now I am putting the skids on my servers, so they don't update. Ghost 6.0Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishersChangelogJohn O’Nolan

Cybersecurity

Russian Connections

When your wifes mobile starts running off and behaving in a manner that is not normal you tend to start asking questions - especially in this day and age. Basically it blew the network baseline right out of the water. Stuff like that gets my attention. Device immediately put in a

Cybersecurity

Top hacker in the world - is an AI

A hacker named Xbow has topped a prestigious security industry US leaderboard that tracks who has found and reported the most vulnerabilities in software from large companies. Xbow isn’t a person – it’s an artificial intelligence tool developed by a company of the same name. Security researchers and hackers

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The fight for the San Jose & billions

I'm speechless. ‘Most valuable treasure’: $17 billion Spanish shipwreck from 1708 to be recoveredThe shipwreck’s deep-sea location, which remained a mystery until 2015, has been entangled in an international ownership debate.ABC NewsABC News Colombia, Spain, Bolivian Indigenous groups and an American salvage company have all

Cybersecurity

MSP Sued by Client

Whoops Cognizant manages Clorox's internal networks, and employees who have issues with their passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes, and VPNs must coordinate with the IT provider to regain access to their system. However, Clorox alleges that the Cognizant Service Desk gave access passwords without verifying the identity

Projects

NBN Australia - FTTP

I took advantage of the free upgrade to optic fiber as advised by my ISP Was it worth it - well I am still debating that one. I didn't change my plan although we had topped out our FTTN connection, we couldn't go any faster if we

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Port Alpha - Saronic Technologies

If you have been paying attention to what China has been achieving lately in relation to its ship building and the complications and problems of the American shipbuilding industry you would be aware that the west has a significant problem in matching China's efficiency - to say nothing about

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Robotics, AI & Freebie

The freebie is probably already gone but I will be at work Now that I have got my coding out of the way, and a little time for play, I found this. Rather interesting - moving at a hell of a pace. Might need to start thinking about a new job.

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Australian Rocket launch delayed again

A bid to launch Australia's first home-grown rocket into orbit has been delayed for the second time this week, with the company behind the venture set to undertake a "full investigation" ‘A big bummer’: Launch of Australia’s first home-grown rocket delayed againGold Coast-

Cybersecurity

Hybrid threats targeting Australia

The following article is written by the Strategist which is ... is the commentary and analysis site of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which is an independent, non-partisan think tank based in Canberra. ASPI is widely recognized for its contributions to public discussions on strategic policy issues in Australia

Cybersecurity

LockBit ransomware gang hacked

Even hackers get hacked LockBit ransomware gang hacked, victim negotiations exposedThe LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced and replaced with a message linking to a MySQL database dump.BleepingComputerLawrence Abrams Furthermore, the phpMyAdmin SQL dump shows that the server was