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Today's Topics:
1. Standard for naming viruses after storms (Tom Worthington)
2. Re: Robot Submarines for Australian Navy (Tom Worthington)
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:05:18 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] Standard for naming viruses after storms
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Recently I stumbled across Microsoft Defender's list of computer
security threats. These were all named after types of weather, such as
Amethyst Rain, Antique Typhoon, Aqua Blizzard, Berry Sandstorm and Blue
Tsunami.
I wondered if the type of meteorological event correspond to the
severity of attack. These names didn't correspond to the Computer
Antivirus Research Organization (CARO) malware naming: appear to cover
this. https://bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/papers/naming.html
It turns out Microsoft names nations after weather: Blizzard (Russia),
Typhoon (China), Sandstorm (Iran) all the way down to Waterspout
(Australia):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/unified-secops/microsoft-threat-actor-naming
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:03:45 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Robot Submarines for Australian Navy
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On 9/15/25 14:04, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> Billion-dollar coffins? New technology could make oceans transparent
>> and Aukus submarines vulnerable
Hopefully, the robot submarines will improve rapidly to the point where
the AUKUS submarines will be cancelled, before they are built. At that
point the government can blame it all on a predecessor, or claim this is
a planned enhancement: "AUKUS 2.0".
> or will they have no people and be remotely controlled ...
No, unless there is a breakthrough in underwater communication, it will
not be possible to communicate with submarines continuously. But they
would not need much intelligence conduct a programmed mission. As the
submarines are unlikely to be equipped with torpedoes or missiles, there
will not need to be a Human-in-the-loop. They could lay sea mines, as
these are preprogrammed anyway.
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Tom Worthington, http://www.tomw.net.au
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