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24/01/2025

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Able Seaman Simon (2020) by British artist, Celia Pike (born in 1952).

Found "undernourished and unwell" wandering Hong Kong dockyards in 1948, Simon was smuggled aboard the HMS Amethyst and appointed honorary "Able Seacat." He quickly befriended his shipmates, cheekily leaving gifts of dead rats in sailors' beds and taking naps in the captain's cap. He was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1949 as a result of his killing off a rat infestation onboard the Amethyst, raising morale, and surviving injuries from a cannon shell during the Yangtze Incident in April 1949. From these injuries, Simon died at age two, 28 November 1949.

He is buried at the PDSA Ilford Animal Cemetery in East London; his gravestone reads:

"Throughout the Yangtze incident his behaviour was of the highest order."

24/01/2025

22/01/2025

https://cyberscoop.com/ransomware-groups-pose-as-fake-tech-support-over-teams/

A researcher at Sophos told CyberScoop that the company observed these tactics being used against multiple individuals and at least 15 organizations.

22/01/2025

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/swedish-spam-blocker-truecaller-takes-030000996.html

(Bloomberg) -- Sweden’s Truecaller AB, the developer of a caller ID and spam-blocking app, is deploying technology to counter the growing number of criminals using artificial intelligence-generated voice cloning to defraud phone users.Most Read from BloombergTexas HOA Charged With Discrimination f...

22/01/2025

21/01/2025

https://cyberscoop.com/from-qualitative-to-quantifiable-transforming-cyber-risk-management-for-critical-infrastructure/

TSA’s new incident disclosure rules are a good fit for cyber risk quantification.

21/01/2025

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/masters-students-using-sensitive-technology-to-face-screening/

All master’s degree students and researchers who are working with “sensitive” technologies are to undergo compulsory screening in an effort to protect the Netherlands against espionage and theft by foreign powers. The measure is necessary to “protect our security and economy, in a world in w...

19/01/2025

https://cyberscoop.com/radio/greg-talks-with-jason-baker-a-ransomware-negotiator-for-guidepoint-security-on-how-ransomware-has-shifted-and-evolved-and-the-challenges-it-poses-for-businesses-and-governments-alike/

Greg talks with Jason Baker, a ransomware negotiator for Guidepoint Security, on how ransomware has shifted and evolved, and the challenges it poses for businesses and governments alike.

17/01/2025

If you are a Sail GP fan, we got you at The Flea.
We have it covered with our live we**am on youtube. Enjoy.

Enjoy the fabulous Auckland skyline 24/7.

17/01/2025

DID YOU KNOW THAT In December 1937, during a football match at Stamford Bridge in London between Chelsea FC and Charlton FC, the game was abandoned in the 60th minute due to heavy fog.

Unfortunately, Charlton FC goalkeeper Sam Bartram was unaware that the match had been stopped and continued to guard his goal for another fifteen minutes. He did not hear the referee’s whistle because of the noise from the crowd behind him. Believing that his teammates were attacking the opposing goal, he stood with outstretched arms, fully focused on protecting his goal amidst the dense fog.

It was only fifteen minutes later when the field police approached him and informed him that the match had been abandoned fifteen minutes earlier.

Sam Bartram, deeply saddened by this, famously said:

“ HOW SAD THAT MY FRIENDS FORGOT ME WHEN I WAS GUARDING THEIR GATE.“

𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞’𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐲, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐬.

BLESSED SUNDAY EVERYONE 🙏

17/01/2025

Topical note considering recent news report about terrace houses in Auckland

15/01/2025

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-and-fbi-conduct-international-operation-delete-malware-used-china-backed

The Justice Department and FBI today announced a multi-month law enforcement operation that, alongside international partners, deleted “PlugX” malware from thousands of infected computers worldwide. As described in court documents unsealed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a group of hack...

15/01/2025

https://therecord.media/us-issues-rule-banning-chinese-russian-car-tech?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8KKEbm_Zas-Hb08HTqr2bsrnt-XBy6-dTiMdwMeXFGm4OFrQcFvPuDQ_dM07d7Jg4QK5hzHaX6ltf1RpuaE17n8rTZbA&_hsmi=342500091&utm_content=342501173&utm_source=hs_email

The Commerce Department on Tuesday announced a new rule barring certain Chinese and Russian connected car technology from being imported to the United States.

12/01/2025

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/10/politics/chinese-hackers-breach-committee-on-foreign-investment-in-the-us/index.html

Chinese hackers breached the US government office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks, two US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.