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Putin Arrives in Kyrgyzstan for SCO Summit

The Russian president will also hold a series of bilateral talks with the leaders of China, India and other nations duri...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
US and Iran exchange fire for the first time in over a month

The US hit two rocket launchers, saying they were about to deploy mines into the Strait of Hormuz.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Japan’s Record 2027 Defense Budget Request Is Only the Opening Bid

Tokyo is building a force around AI, unmanned systems, a high-low weapons mix, and greater staying power.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Nigeria’s worsening insecurity tests president’s second-term bid

Security challenges in Africa’s most populous country are becoming a defining issue in its election campaign.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Iran war is no Vietnam. But it may become an economic quagmire for the Gulf.

Five costs related to the Iran war are compounding across the Gulf and its trading partners, and none will be eliminated...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
‘Every step towards disarmament matters,’ nuclear testing survivors warn

He was born without arms, a legacy of four decades of nuclear explosions at the Semipalatinsk test site in his native Ka...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Commercial space is not an endless field of innovation: an assessment of the good, the bad, and the ugly

The growth of the commercial space industry is seen by some as a way to help the US government to do more with less. Cha...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Space has a billionaire problem, but it also has a billionaire solution

Many in the public see space as primarily a playground for billionaires. Kelsie Goddard argues that while that reputatio...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Learning from a satellite servicing mission's failure

In mid-August, NASA announced it was calling off an effort to reboost the orbit of its Swift space telescope because of ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a develop...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
MTN Uganda Partners With Starlink to Bring Satellite Connectivity to Remote Areas

MTN Uganda has partnered with Starlink to extend satellite-enabled connectivity to enterprise customers operating in rem...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
SES Awards OHB €1 billion for IRIS2 MEO Satellites

European satellite operator SES has awarded OHB a contract worth almost €1 billion to develop and build satellite platfo...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing

Someone hid AI instructions into a legal filing. Alternate link.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Indonesia Investigating Reports of Citizens Recruited Into Russian Military

Ukraine last week published scans of seven e-visa applications and one migration card it said belonged to Indonesian men...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Chinese manufacturing activity falls for second consecutive month

Beijing’s export-oriented industries have helped buoy the country’s economy for years as domestic consumption has falter...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Africa turns to Asia for diesel as Iran war disrupts supplies

Before the start of hostilities, Africa relied on the Gulf for a large share of the fuel it consumes.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Asian leaders gather amid China's efforts to expand influence

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members will meet in Kyrgyzstan to discuss energy and security.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
ValleyRAT masquerading as adware

Threat actors are distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as adware. We analyze the infection chain, from the mali...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Drone Hits High-Rise Apartment Building in Yekaterinburg as Ukraine Targets Wildberries Hub

Local authorities said at least four people were injured during the drone barrage while several residential buildings we...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Trump’s trifecta of failure on Seoul hands Kim Jong Un the advantage

Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Bruce Klingner, a senior fellow at the Mansfield Foundation....

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs

A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors t...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Starlink Is Live in Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea just became Starlink’s 30th African country. On August 29, 2026, both the official Starlink account an...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – August 2026 edition

Details about the Hugging Face hack, critical infrastructure under attack, a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network, and more o...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
ROK taps veteran general for defense minister as North also names new top brass

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated retired four-star Gen. Kang Shin-chul as defense minister, putting a form...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Quantum Stack and the Countdown to Q-Day

Quantum’s hype obscures a reality with real geopolitical stakes: the technology works and is advancing every day. Camero...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Actually, maybe: How German Angst could become Europe’s nightmare

Germany’s political centre is crumbling—but its leaders appear unable to get ahead of the impending crisis

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencie...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Stop Using AI. Start Commanding It

Walk into the Pentagon, climb the escalator, and an Uncle Sam-style poster points at you: “I want YOU to use AI.” It wor...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Roman lifts off on a mission to survey the infrared sky

Image: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
India, UK Fire Up Defense Cooperation With Joint Development

An inter-governmental agreement to develop and incorporate integrated full electric propulsion for the Indian Navy’s fou...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Taiwan’s parliament finally passes drone bill to back hedgehog strategy

Belated parliamentary funding for Taiwan’s drone program isn’t likely to satisfy President Lai Ching-te. Nonetheless, pr...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Philippine Peso Slumps to Record Low Amid Rising Energy Prices

Like some of its regional counterparts, the Philippines continues to be buffeted by the economic shocks of the U.S.-Iran...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Trump designates protesters terrorists. How far will it go?

Protesting is terrorism. At least, that is the message that the Trump administration has communicated in a series of rec...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
After Iran, US signals major security shift in the Middle East

When President Donald Trump congratulated Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan for signing the Mecca Pact, describing it a...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
What do current US military ops in Latin America actually look like?

On Thursday, U.S. SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan met with the Colombian and Ecuadorian defense ministers in ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Rocket Lab launches Japanese radar satellite to orbit on 'Owl Around the World' mission (video)

Rocket Lab launched a Japanese synthetic aperture radar satellite to orbit on Sept. 2 for Synspective, a Tokyo-based Ear...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Road Through Damascus

How Syria can capitalize on the post-Hormuz economy.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Price of Russian Paranoia

Spy hunting shores up Putin’s power—but paralyzes the state.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail

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