ShinyHunters breached more than 100 organisations through a PeopleSoft flaw before Oracle issued an advisory, and the reason two-thirds were universities says everything about...
The ShinyHunters PeopleSoft Breach: A Tale of Monoculture Vulnerability
The recent cybersecurity campaign orchestrated by the hacking group ShinyHunters has exposed a critical weakness not...
Most people don’t realise the loneliest stretch of adulthood often arrives in the early 50s, when the children have left, the parents are still...
The Quiet Loneliness of Midlife: Beyond the Empty Nest
For decades, the prevailing narrative about midlife centered around the idea of the “empty nest” —...
On October 29, 1969, a UCLA student named Charley Kline tried to send the word ‘LOGIN’ over ARPANET to Stanford, and the system crashed...
The First Message: How “LO” Became the Internet’s Accidental Beginning
At roughly 10:30 p.m. on October 29, 1969, Charley Kline, a UCLA graduate student, sat...
The Wollemi pine was known only from ancient fossils until a park ranger rappelled into a canyon outside Sydney in 1994 and found a...
The Hidden Legacy of the Wollemi Pine
Fewer than 100 mature Wollemi pines grow in the wild. Their exact location is a closely guarded state...
When Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific in 1969, the recovered astronauts were sealed in a quarantine trailer for weeks because nobody could...
Apollo 11’s Pacific Splashdown: Quarantine, Containment, and the Unknown Depths Beneath
On July 24, 1969, just three days after leaving lunar orbit, the historic Apollo...