{"id":2472,"date":"2025-03-09T00:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T00:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/weekly-update-442\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T00:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T00:12:58","slug":"weekly-update-442","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/weekly-update-442\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update 442"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Weekly Update 442<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2025\/03\/Splash-Template.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Weekly Update 442\"><\/p>\n<p>We survived the cyclone! That was a seriously weird week with lots of build-up to an event that last occurred before I was born. It&#8217;d been 50 years since a cyclone came this far south, and the media was full of alarming predictions of destruction. In the end, we maxed out at 52kts just after I recorded this video:<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s here. But 47kts max gusts isn\u2019t too bad, nothing actually blowing over here (yet). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qFyrZdiyRW?ref=troyhunt.com\">pic.twitter.com\/qFyrZdiyRW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1897979122942640362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">March 7, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>We remained completely untouched and unaffected beyond needing to sweep up some leaves once the rain (which has also been unremarkable), finally stops. It appears the worst damage has been a lot of homes without power and perhaps most obviously, the beaches have done a complete vanishing act with all the sand:<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What our favourite beach is like today, versus before. They\u2019ll rebuild it, this isn\u2019t unprecedented, but yeah, there\u2019s some work to be done now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6zFMG7bZqK?ref=troyhunt.com\">pic.twitter.com\/6zFMG7bZqK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1898275870206210472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">March 8, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>But hey, everyone is fine (not just us, the whole city AFAIK), so that&#8217;s a good outcome. Back on topic, here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s video:<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"width: 170px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast\/id1176454699?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/05\/Listen-on-Apple-Podcasts.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 442\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 175px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL7LAAxaabizMAXnJe0s3xjQ30q12EVmjt&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2024\/09\/Watch-and-Listen-on-YouTube.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 442\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 118px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7jMtKFohdrw6qmz8AkLqit?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2019\/10\/spotify.svg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Weekly Update 442\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 120px; display: inline-block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/troy-hunt-weekly-update\/playlists\/podcast.rss?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/07\/Download-via-RSS.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 442\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TuXvmJ0SL18\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"references\">References:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/report-uri.com\/?src=troyhunt.com&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Sponsored by:\u00a0Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don\u2019t get pwned; get real-time alerts &amp; prevent breaches #SecureYourSite<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/were-backfilling-and-cleaning-stealer-logs-in-have-been-pwned\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">We&#8217;re filling in the gaps of the stealer logs that have come before, and doing our best to clean everything up a bit while we&#8217;re there<\/a> (but we&#8217;re never going to have totally &#8220;clean&#8221; data: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garbage_in,_garbage_out?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">GIGO<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1897464854874673433?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Someone tried to phish a PayPal OTP from me and instead faced some great trolling by Elle<\/a> (so proud \ud83e\udd72)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1897454584253309433?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Someone also tried to phish my X credentials from me<\/a> (that one really took some thinking to emphatically put it in the &#8220;phish&#8221; box)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Troy Hunt<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/weekly-update-442\/\">Go to troyhunt<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Update 442 We survived the cyclone! That was a seriously weird week with lots of build-up to an event that last occurred before I was born. It&#8217;d been 50 years since a cyclone came this far south, and the media was full of alarming predictions of destruction. In the end, we maxed out at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,135],"tags":[856,910,148],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troyhunttroyhunt","category-weekly-update","tag-but","tag-some","tag-was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}