adelaide – Stilgherrian

23 March 202524 March 2025

Weekly Wrap 773: Remembering a little train in the sunshine

On a bright sunny day a pair of diesel railcars sit at a station platform in the open air. They’re silver, with their flat noses painted bright yellow, and just behind that a red stripe and a a small flash of blue.

My week of Monday 17 to Sunday 23 March 2025 wasn’t hugely productive but I’ve started planning more things. I also thought back to 2018, for some reason. Have a train.

08 December 202109 December 2021

Talking the hack of CS Energy on ABC Adelaide

Late last month Queensland electricity generator CS Energy disclosed that they’d been the victim of a ransomware attack, but that it had been contained before it could disrupt production. Today a news story blamed China. Really? I spoke about that this afternoon on ABC Adelaide.

14 September 202114 September 2021

Talking Apple’s “emergency” security patch and NSO Group on ABC Adelaide

Apple released an â€œemergencyâ€ security patch today, which of course led to curiosity about just how emergency it was. I spoke about this just now with Jules Schiller on ABC Adelaide.

03 December 202011 December 2020

The 9pm Freedom Wine Zombie Mink War Crime with Andrew P Street

Todayâ€™s guest in the End of Spring Series 2020 is the wonderful Andrew P Street â€” author, columnist, journalist, voice-person, and renown mink-canceller.

01 September 202001 September 2020

Talking about the Australian Signals Directorate on ABC Adelaide

Rachel Noble, Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate, speaking at the National Security College in Canberra on 1 September 2020. (Australian National University)

Today Rachel Noble, the director-general of Australia’s cyber agency the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), gave her first speech. It attracted more interest than I thought it might, and I spoke about it this evening with Jules Schiller on ABC Adelaide.

19 June 202019 June 2020

Talking about Morrison’s cyber scare on ABC Adelaide

Prime Minister Scott Morrison at his press conference on Friday morning. (Matt Roberts/ABC News)

On Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison called a press conference to talk about a “sophisticated nation-state actor” conducting sustained cyber attacks on Australian government and private sector organisations. There’s wasn’t much detail, so why do it? I spoke about that this afternoon with Jules Schiller on ABC Adelaide.