Ongoing confusion within South Africa’ electrical sector has led to claims that all Schuko sockets are banned. The reality is far more nuanced, and the misunderstanding is affecting product sales, certificate-of-compliance approvals and appliance imports. There’s a fundamental misreading of the specifications. Many people assume all Schuko-style plugs and sockets are illegal. That’s incorrect and…
As Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche meets with Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida, a central question is whether Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime accomplice will tell the truth. Before and after Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking minors in 2021, prosecutors and the judge who oversaw the case said that Maxwell made multiple false statements. “The defendant’s willingness…
The NATO summit in the Netherlands. Haiyun Jiang | Via Reuters It’ll be a moment of truth for NATO on Wednesday when the Western military alliance releases a joint statement on a heavily pushed and previewed collective defense spending hike. Allies have been corralled, cajoled and pressured to hike their defense expenditure from 2% to…
The author, NEC XON’s Ryno le Roux Attackers don’t wait for board approval. They slip through a misconfigured firewall at 2am on a Sunday or phish a distracted employee just before quarter-end. At that moment, every control you’ve bought is judged in milliseconds. That is why incident response (IR) isn’t a “nice to have” line…
