Every item in the Black Shard Newsroom links its primary sources, labels what is reported or claimed, and logs each correction with a timestamp.
Every news item links at least one primary source: the vendor advisory, the government notice, the regulator release or the court record. Each source shows the date it was retrieved, primary sources first.
Reporting by other outlets is listed as secondary and never stands alone behind a news item.
A fact confirmed by the affected organisation, the vendor or a regulator is stated as fact. A fact carried only by other reporting is attributed to the outlet that reported it.
A claim with no confirmation, such as a threat actor statement, carries the label Claimed, unconfirmed. The newsroom does not name an organisation that appears only on a leak site.
Every timestamp is Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10, with no daylight saving. The published date is the day an item went live and never moves. Where the event happened on another day, the item shows its event date as well.
A correction or a material update is recorded in the item’s Updates log with its AEST timestamp and a line on what changed. The published date stays as it was.
Items carry the byline of the desk that filed them: Black Shard Advisories, Threat Intelligence, Research, the Policy Desk or Guides, and Black Shard for company news. Black Shard Pty Ltd publishes every item.
Email the item’s address and the error to info@blackshard.com.au. A confirmed error is corrected and logged on the item.
Each advisory carries a severity, a status, its CVE or vendor advisory identifier, and one action. IDs run BS-ADV-YYYY-NNNN in publication order.
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