Ravi Nayyar

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Critical Software + Critical Infrastructure Law | PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney | Fellow and Research Contributor at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Associate Fellow at the Social Cyber Institute | Blogging at A Techno-Legal Update | Cricket, #Bloods, Bharatiyata | #StillRomancingWithLife
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'What I would have liked to have seen is ... two stretchers and paramedics go in, escorted by police, and pick up those patients, and bring them back to a treatment centre ...

'But unfortunately, if we’re not allowed in that warm or hot zone, there is a delay'.

Like how casevacs happen in conflict zones? It's bizarre that NSWPOL x Ambos didn't already have similar protocols in place, especially in light of the Lindt Siege + generally heightened threat of violent acts (seemingly at random) against innocents.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/heartbreaking-evidence-of-ambo-forced-to-wait-outside-westfield-as-patient-lay-dying-20250430-p5lvcj.html

Heartbreaking evidence of ambo forced to wait outside Westfield as patient lay dying

Paramedic Christopher Wilkinson sped to Bondi Westfield as the first emergency calls came through. He found paramedics and stretchers lined up outside and police posted at the door.

The Sydney Morning Herald
'According to sources not authorised to speak publicly, Hoban allegedly put in false complaints against fellow cops, including domestic violence allegations, and misused Crime Stoppers'.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-police-officer-charged-with-making-false-complaints-against-other-cops-20250427-p5luil.html
Sydney police officer charged with making false complaints against other cops

The 25-year-old allegedly made false accusations against colleagues regarding domestic violence and misused Crime Stoppers.

The Sydney Morning Herald

YIKES: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/san-jose-engineer-pleads-guilty-bombings-pge-transformers-causing-property-damage-and

Physical security matters, especially for electricity infrastructure in the US of A.

San Jose Engineer Pleads Guilty to Bombings of PG&E Transformers, Causing Property Damage and Widespread Power Outages

Peter Karasev, 38, a U.S. citizen residing in San Jose, pleaded guilty in the Northern District of California today to federal charges related to two separate bombings of PG&E electrical transformers in late 2022 and early 2023.

'Provide me your SBOM for both your sandbox and production [environments], along with a third-party SBOM,” by uploading them into eMASS.

'I will have AI tools on the back end to review the data instead of waiting for a human. If all of it passes the right requirements: Provisional ATO ...

'It would be followed “in the next week or two,” by a Request For Information to industry to help build out the details.

'I only have five things that I really care about. Did you develop what you’re doing in [a] secure by design [process]? How do I validate that? Are you working with zero trust? How do I validate that? [And, how are you doing] continuous monitoring?'

Interesting.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/acting-pentagon-cio-faster-cyber-rules-contractors/

Acting Pentagon CIO Signing Off on New, Faster Cyber Rules

A new fast-track approval process for software on Defense Department networks will use AI tools, acting CIO Katie Arrington said.

Air & Space Forces Magazine

'Ms Li said community groups such as the Australia-China Friendship Society would lose out on annual event funding from Landbridge if the company lost the port lease'.

Mate, why is anyone taking funds from a Chinese company anyway?

'All city centre services have been suspended with several tram stops across Manchester out of action. All Metrolink stops are closed in the city centre except for Victoria.

'A spokesperson for TfGM said: "Due to loss of overhead line power in the city centre, service changes are in place across the network"'.

Huge go well to the TfGM/contractor personnel responding to the outage.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/statement-issued-power-cut-causes-31532075

All we know about major Metrolink incident - full list of trams that are and aren't running

Several services have been affected following the loss of overhead power

Manchester Evening News
Darwin's Chinese community calls for Labor, the Coalition to reconsider port lease plans

Members of Darwin's Chinese community are calling for federal Labor and the Coalition to reconsider their election promises to take back the lease of the Darwin Port.

ABC News

'Control room staff noticed the first incident at around 2am at the Keadby 2 gas-fired power plant in Lincolnshire, as well as the Viking Link interconnector between the UK and Denmark. Then, power plant failures were again seen at around 6pm.

'It is thought that there was a disconnection from the network in both instances, which was contained by control room engineers each time.

'... “highly unlikely” the events over the weekend are connected to each other or to the massive system failures that hit the electricity network in Spain, Portugal and parts of France on Monday.

'NESO confirmed that Britain's electricity network was not affected by Europe’s power system incident ...'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/power-blackouts-spain-portugal-britain-b2741631.html

Britain struck by unusual power activity hours before blackouts in Spain and Portugal

Britain’s grid operator confirms it is investigating unexplained changes in electricity frequency seen on Sunday

The Independent

'Recent geopolitical tensions provide new impetus for attacks on sovereigns ....

'... unlikely that a cyber incident might significantly or directly affect the creditworthiness of a sovereign'.

Well, quite - because we tend to rebuild and recover after cyber incidents. Look at Ukraine, eg, after the whole country was bricked by NotPetya.
https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/250429-cyber-risk-insights-sovereigns-and-their-critical-infrastructure-are-prime-targets-101619205

'The satellites are the first of 3,236 that Amazon plans to send ...

'... atop an Atlas V rocket from the Boeing ... and Lockheed Martin ... joint-venture United Launch Alliance ...

'The company faces a deadline set by the [FCC] to deploy half its constellation ... by mid-2026, ... likely to seek an extension ...

'ULA could launch up to five more Kuiper missions this year ...

'... more than 8,000 Starlink satellites in orbit since 2019, marking its [SpaceX's] 250th dedicated Starlink launch on Monday'.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazon-launches-first-kuiper-internet-satellites-taking-starlink-2025-04-28/

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