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Australia is not ready for an economic blockade of Taiwan

Last month, US Senator Tammy Duckworth warned that China may be more likely to impose an economic blockade on Taiwan in ...

Private Sector Cybercrime Disruption: Compatible with Statecraft?

As organised cybercriminal attacks escalate and threaten national security and social order, should the private sector g...

Army gears up to ‘engage’ enemy surveillance satellites

The Army’s space superiority efforts are focused on countering adversary ISR satellites, as well as conducting “stratosp...

Russia’s Pacific submarine fleet could tip the scales in China’s favour

Russia has a potent yet often overlooked fleet of nuclear-powered and conventional attack submarines in the Pacific. An ...

PNG’s declining agricultural output requires a return to commercial production

PNG's agriculture has been declining for over two decades despite endless policies, plans and donor loans. Wilson Thomps...

Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal

Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of tot...

The Commercial Space Race

A strong commercial space industry is an important partner for the U.S. government, as it contributes to building more r...

Exposed AWS Access Key Linked to Data Breach Affecting 1500+ UK Charities

CRM provider Beacon has revealed that a compromised AWS access key was the likely root cause of the breach of 1500 UK ch...

Google Cloud Targets 2027 for First Major Post-Quantum Security Milestone

Google Cloud has set a 2027 deadline to mitigate store-now-decrypt-later risks as part of its post-quantum cryptography ...

Black Hat USA 2026: Will vulnerability discovery eventually decline in the AI era?

And will today’s surge in AI-driven vulnerability discovery eventually make tomorrow’s software safer?

vCenter Flaw Exploited Just Five Days After Disclosure

Attackers exploited a critical-severity vCenter flaw five days after Broadcom disclosed it

It’s Time For The President To Level With The American People on Iran

The U.S. administration’s strategic expectations are increasingly colliding with a set of hard realities. While Iran has...

The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats

Almost every AI security framework we are applying rests on one misguided assumption: danger scales with size. Compute t...

Trump Authorizes Private Sector Participation in Offensive Cyber Operations

The White House has authorized government-directed offensive cyber operations against transnational groups, prompting wa...

Blacklisted North Korean oil firm defrauded of $366K in gasoline deal in Russia

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing NK News series exploring Russia-DPRK relations based on court document...

Dissecting the JWR phishing framework

Cisco Talos recently identified an undocumented phishing framework, internally branded "JWR" by its developer, built to ...

Ukraine war experience gives North Korea new edge, UNC deputy commander warns

The second-in-command of the U.S.-led multilateral force overseeing the inter-Korean armistice warned that the experienc...

Akira Affiliate Crashes Ransomware After Attempting EDR Evasion

Huntress documents how a ransomware affiliate sabotaged its own attack with an anti-EDR effort

Black Hat USA 2026: What the Hugging Face hack tells us about human responsibility

The incident involving OpenAI models shows that autonomous hacks make human oversight more important, not less

Cash remains most widely accepted payment method in euro area

ICO Reprimands Criminal Records Office After 2023 Breach

The ICO has issued a formal reprimand to ACRO after patching and security monitoring failures led to a breach

The True Cost of Cheap Chips

Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory c...

Armored Likho expands its cyber-espionage toolkit

Kaspersky experts break down a new Armored Likho campaign that poses as a fundraising efforts and delivers a new Still T...

South Korea to upgrade battle tanks as North improves drone capabilities

South Korea will upgrade its K2 battle tanks with protection systems to counter a variety of threats, the country’s arms...

2026 and All That: Another Benchmark Year in Royal Navy Decline

The 1930 comic history, 1066 and All That, made famous the British habit of reducing national history to a sequence of m...

Keeping Defence above water on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The marine park around the Cocos (Keeling) Islands should be understood as a national security asset, not just a conserv...

Preparing for surprise: Australian defence in an age of flux

Simultaneous shifts in the character of warfare and in the international system are heightening Australia’s risk of stra...

Fear not for AUKUS as Britain’s new prime minister takes over

Australia, so dependent on Britain for AUKUS, needn’t worry about new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s commitment to defenc...

Age of Optionality: The Future is Not About Replacing the US Dollar

The financial system is evolving toward greater choice rather than a new hegemon, requiring policymakers to rethink how ...

Space-based interceptor contractors passed first Golden Dome milestone: Guetlein

The Defense Department will not decide whether to produce operational space-based interceptors until after industry demo...

Unlike its predecessors, the Yangon Stock Exchange remains relevant

Myanmar's previous stock exchanges were written off as vanity projects of authoritarian regimes. Despite modest activity...

Staring down a $40M tariff bill, this American importer is suing Trump to end some tariffs on Canada

How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal?

During the week of March 9, drones came over Barksdale Air Force Base in waves. Barksdale is the home of the 2nd Bomb Wi...

Russia’s Blurry Line Between Science and Sabotage Beneath the Ocean’s Surface

In 2025, Nurlan Aliyev wrote, “The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet,” where he argued that NATO must act decisively t...

Joint force needs kinetic and non-kinetic weapons for space war: Whiting

“We’re a combatant command and we fight to win wars,” US Space Command chief Gen. Stephen Whiting told the annual Army S...

Analysis: Weaker EV targets could cost UK consumers £3bn a year by 2030

An upcoming UK government consultation on weakening targets for electric vehicles (EVs) could cost consumers as much as ...

WindRelay Malware Pairs With SpyNote RAT in Live-Call Scam

New WindRelay NFC malware paired with SpyNote RAT let a fraudster clone a card mid-call

United States on track for record natural gas production in 2026

We forecast U.S. marketed natural gas production will average 122.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2026, surpassi...

Lazarus Used Post-Quantum Key Exchange to Deliver Zero-Day

Lazarus malware used post-quantum key exchange to protect delivery of a Windows zero-day exploit

Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls

AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something...