‘Due to a technical issue with the lap counting board and timing, the official result for the Dubai T100 Men's race was determined after the 7th lap, which was the last known timing and follows World Triathlon guidelines’. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

At last, the Bill’s in Parliament! bills.parliament.uk/bills/4035

Who doesn't love some national security law drama? My views on the saga of the aborted Chinese espionage trial in the UK.

Some jibber-jabber from me on cybery developments that came to my attention in the past month.

There's now talks of investigations into Chinese-made electric buses in Australia, Denmark, the UK, and the Netherlands.

And it’s not just buses: www.kongsberg.com/maritime/pro... www.wartsila.com/media/news/1...

ॐ श्रीं ह्रीं सरस्वत्यै नमः।

It would be nice if the aliens have ADS-B when they come in to say G’Day.

[Puts on lazy NRL stereotypes hat.] Was Lady Macbeth a Manly Sea Eagles fan?

‘Transport operator Ruter said test results published last week showed that bus-maker Yutong Group had access to bus control systems for software updates and diagnostics.

‘… said it will have fully recovered from April's cyber hack by March next year … ‘… forced to suspend online clothing orders for seven weeks and click-and-collect services for nearly four.

‘The market for CTI is also dominated by US companies, including CrowdStrike, IBM, Google (Mandiant), and Recorded Future. Large companies that also offer other cyber­security products – especially those that collect data on incidents, such as EDR and SIEM – …

’The Jobs and Skills Report noted a correlation with weak productivity growth, "indicating that poor skill matching may be compounding economic pressures".

’[The French Culture Minister] refused the resignation of the museum director and cited four failings: underestimated risk, under-equipped security, ill-suited governance and "obsolete" protocols’.

‘The old iteration of the BOM website also provided a daily numerical value [for the Fire Danger Rating], allowing residents and firefighters to know exactly where on the scale the forecast fell.

‘After a long litigation, it remains unclear why Shvidler was sanctioned, while others in similar situations were not. The government admitted that Shvidler was a “secondary” target: his designation aimed to put pressure on a “primary” target, his friend Roman Abramovich.

‘Sydney’s new metro station, Gadigal Station, has been named by the Prix Versailles as one of the World’s Most Beautiful Passenger Stations for 2025.

‘But just two years since commercial operations began, shareholders are struggling to make a profit and pay back debt.

‘As a result, the book contributes little of utility to a defensive policy debate. The main drivers of the cyber insecurity are hardly discussed until the Epilogue: The economic misincentives that cause the tech industry to earn hundreds of billions …

‘The ABC has spoken with several single mothers from the South Sudanese community in Melton, who are terrified of what is next for their children, and they seem unsure about what their children are entangled in.

'Millar’s observation that more than two-thirds of automobiles sold in Australia were made here and that local oil refineries "meet almost all requirements of refined petroleum products" today appears unrecognisable.

'You carefully read the documentation, which was originally written by a monk in isolation while being slowly crushed to death by a wine barrel, and allow your resources just the permissions they need to talk to one another — which of course doesn't work ...

'Threat actors compromise these companies and use their access to bid on cargo shipments, to then steal and sell them.

More DPRK cyber sanctions. US: home.treasury.gov/news/press-r... Oz: www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...

'One of the things we look for when it comes to counterintelligence threats, insider threats, is financial hardship ... And I am in a building surrounded by super top-secret operations, and people who are running the f**k out of money.

'None of the attacks impacted the safe supply of drinking water itself, but instead affected the organizations behind those supplies. The incidents, a record number in any two-year period ...

'... recovery costs and other losses tied to a data breach earlier this year led to a 90 percent drop in operating profit for the third quarter, highlighting the increasing impact of cyber incidents.

'Coleman, who was employed by Virgin Media O2, sold confidential customer data to family friend Nicholas Harper for use in a boiler room fraud. 'A fine is the maximum penalty ... Coleman was fined £384 ... £38 surcharge and prosecution costs contribution of £500.

Well done, ACCC - the star among our regulators. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Great questions from Joe Longo in his NPC address (www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/n...), specifically regarding whether: - the Corps Act delineation between public v Pty companies is fit-for-purpose, given massive companies like Canva not being subject to the same standards as public firms;

'... suffered lacklustre financial performance in recent years – which has been reflected in its share price that has fallen more than 12 per cent this year.

'Rising Tide has made constant, public assurances that we will never block non-coal shipping, particularly not cruise liners. [Ah, so targeting economically significant shipping and undermining the functioning of our CNI nonetheless.]

'Police said they seized 20 kilograms of explosives alongside home-made bombs and guns in a series of raids across the state, most recently in August. 'One of the improvised explosive devices included a drone.

'Since October 2023, we’ve seen more provocative protests and a notable uptick in intentionally disruptive and damaging tactics by anti-Israel activists, including multiple acts of arson, vandalism and violent protest against defence companies accused of supplying weapon [stuff]

'... the excavation of about 380,000 tonnes of sandstone and other rock to create the [launch] chambers – and a massive cross-passage to link the two – took about nine months. In each cavern a 500-tonne gantry crane, ...

'The Military Sealift Command, the Navy’s logistics backbone, faces such severe personnel shortages that it is decommissioning ships it cannot crew.

'... could be forced to close some of the national airspace to air traffic if the federal government shutdown extends for another week ...

‘... one of the harbour pilots helping navigate the 333-metre long Maersk Shekou into the port failed to issue a crucial instruction [the Shekou’s helmsman] as the giant vessel battled through rough seas and stormy weather, escorted by four tugboats.

'More than 10 maps and purported data related to nuclear weapons were also seized from Hussaini, a resident of Jharkhand's Jamshedpur. 'Several fake passports, Aadhaar and PAN cards, and a fake BARC ID were also recovered from him.

'iTnews can now also confirm that the firmware problem might have passed under the noses of four layers of handset tests by four separate bodies without ever being detected.

'... Martin worked at DigitalMint as a ransomware threat negotiator (just as the unnamed co-conspirator), while Goldberg is a former Sygnia incident response manager. 'The Department of Justice claims the defendants operated as ALPHV BlackCat affiliates ...

'A U.S. Army National Guard Sergeant First Class, trained in less than an hour became the first soldier to independently plan, command and execute OPV Black Hawk missions using the system’s handheld tablet.

'We assess with medium confidence that a possible nation-state threat actor used this malware in a likely supply chain attack.

'Cyber actors are installing an implant dubbed ‘BADCANDY’ on Cisco IOS XE devices that are vulnerable to CVE-2023-20198 ... observed since October 2023, with renewed activity notable throughout 2024 and 2025. [THE EDGE!]

'Not only did Australian regulators allow Beijing-backed companies to become major shareholders in the two Western Australia [zirconium] mines, the federal government even gave one of them a $160 million soft loan to help it into production.

'In recent months, FPVs (First Person View drones) have been picking specific targets on the routes linking Kharkiv and Dnipro regions to Donetsk – and have even started to prowl the avenues of Kramatorsk.

'After the cuts take effect in early December, they will leave three of the [Stakehodler Engagement] division’s four units without any staff: Council Management, which convenes meetings between government agencies and the operators of U.S. critical infrastructure; ...

Leaks: 'Some handsets, it appears, will be left inoperable because the settings are hardcoded in the devices. 'TPG Telecom did not have any knowledge of the firmware problem until Telstra started notifying other carriers about it about two weeks ago ...

Someone please tell me ADF bases have some C-UAS. Especially Garden Island. www.armytimes.com/news/your-ar...

‘… chief customer and digital officer ‌Catriona Larritt will step down by the end of December, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday …