Articles on technology leadership, cyber security, infrastructure, education technology, homelabs and the Townsville technology community.

Service doesn't always happen on a stage

Fixing a church projector became a reminder that ordinary technical work still counts as service, and that other people took the time to teach me first.

Testing your defences and preparing to fail safely, AI included

Vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, human factors and a simple framework for pulling it all together — practical readiness steps for schools, charities and small businesses in the age of AI.

North Queensland Cyber Watch: a Townsville gym data breach reaches serving police officers

Serving Townsville police officers were caught up in a data breach linked to a Burdell gym, with client details reportedly found on a USB during a police raid. What is known, why a data breach is not always a hack, and what it says about the platforms gyms run on.

From Trivy to GitHub: how the TeamPCP supply-chain attacks spread, and what we can do about it

How stolen developer credentials from the Trivy compromise cascaded into Bitwarden, TanStack, Nx, OpenAI, GitHub and the European Commission, and the controls the FBI and affected vendors recommend.

The AFP didn't name the software: what was behind the TeamPCP supply-chain attacks

The AFP charged two men over a global cybercrime syndicate but never named the compromised software. Lined up against months of public incident reports, the mystery is Trivy, Checkmarx KICS, LiteLLM and the Telnyx Python SDK.

The problem with being called Nick in Townsville

What Mayor Nick Dametto is teaching me about Google, names, personal SEO and building a clearer local identity online.

North Queensland Cyber Watch: Storm names Westco Motors Cairns in ransomware claim

The Storm ransomware group has named Westco Motors Cairns on its leak site and published sample documents, but the dealership has not publicly confirmed a breach. What is known, what remains alleged, and what Cairns and Townsville businesses should take from it.