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Updated guidance on the 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials

We've joined international partners to update SBOM minimum elements guidance, helping organisations improve software tra...

Australia and Japan are stewards of a wavering order

The Australia–Japan quasi-alliance is not a hedge against US unreliability, nor should it be seen in purely bilateral te...

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

How Mexico Locked In Its Militarized Police State

In 2021, Andrew Ivey wrote, “‘I Have Other Data’: The Guardia Nacional and the Entrenchment of Mexico’s Militarization’,...

LogoKit Phishing Kit Screenshots Victim Sites in Real Time

LogoKit now builds per-victim phishing pages using live screenshots of the target's real website

Russian-Alligned TA488 Returns With Persistent Outlook Web Access Attack

TA488 returned with OWA half-click exploit deploying OWAReaper implant that survived re-imaging

NATO’s digital arsenal: How Europe can avoid a new dependence on America

AI-powered command systems are becoming the backbone of modern warfare. NATO needs shared standards, but if those rest o...

The Average Cost of a Data Breach Rises to $5 Million

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report warns that the global average cost of a data breach has reached a record high of $4.99m...

Two of a kind: How France and Italy can show the way for Europe’s Africa policy

Rome and Paris have each overhauled their economic strategies towards Africa in the past few years, competing openly for...

Just 1% of AI-Discovered Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild, Research Shows

For now, the use of AI benefits vulnerability research more than vulnerability exploitation, a VulnCheck researcher said

Researchers Warn of AI-Enhanced Phone Fraud Ecosystem

AI is dramatically reducing the barriers to entry for scam phone farm operators, Human Security warns

NCSC Publishes Guidance to Aid Incident Response and Recovery

The National Cyber Security Centre has released a detailed framework to assist with incident response and recovery

ASML’s Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography and the Limits of Reverse Engineering in China

In June, the U.S. Department of Commerce informed the Dutch company ASML that it suspects one of its extreme ultraviolet...

ECB wage tracker at 2.7% in Q1 2027, indicating stable negotiated wage pressures

Parsing Trump’s Decision to (Maybe) Give Uranium Enrichment to Saudi Arabia

On June 22, the United States announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. This type ...

Trump warns ideology behind North Korea’s 1950 invasion is heading West

U.S. President Donald Trump used the anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement to warn of a renewed communist th...

Risky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood

On this week’s show special guest co-host Pete Ranks, the former director of the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence, jo...

North Korean troops for Russia, a new Seoul strategy and the ‘Hero of Panmunjom’

NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park joins this week’s podcast to discuss Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim t...

Australia’s defence industry needs allies

While Australia correctly prioritises the development of domestic industry, the Australian Defence Force is not a suffic...

As Australia looks to partnership, Indonesian military builds internal role

Indonesia’s defence policy is moving in two directions at once. Externally, it is pursuing procurement and modernisation...

Russia picks new ambassador to North Korea months after longtime envoy’s death

Russia has appointed a new ambassador to North Korea following the death of its longtime envoy Alexander Matsegora, whic...

Can French nukes protect Europe if Donald Trump walks away?

Europeans are keen on nuclear collaboration with Emmanuel Macron. What if Marine Le Pen becomes president?

The Quad is still treating critical minerals as a mining problem

China won the first critical minerals contest while Australia, India, Japan and the United States were still debating su...

Co-Founder of Controversial Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport

The OCCRP found that the co-founder of NSO Group, which develops Pegasus spyware, travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Isra...

Key Areas Where Water Scarcity Intensifies Risks of Conflict

Water disputes can directly drive conflict, but more often, water scarcity acts as a catalyst — one that, combined with ...

Bugs in Hugging Face Diffusers Bypass Custom Code Safeguard

Three CVEs in Hugging Face diffusers let a malicious model repo run code on any machine that loads it

The Saudi dilemma: How Yemen could shape the next phase of the Iran war

As the Houthis attack Saudi ships and infrastructure, Riyadh faces an increasingly difficult choice: absorb the blows to...

AI-Assisted Bug Hunt Uncovers Linux Kernel 0-Day in net/sched

AI-assisted research uncovered Linux kernel use-after-free allowing root escalation

Phishing Dominates as Initial Entry Method for Cyber-Attacks, as Hackers Hone Evasion Techniques

Analysis of real-life incident response cases by Cisco Talos warns that phishing remains a powerful method of initial co...

Microsoft Launches Flurry of AI Security Initiatives to Combat AI-Enabled Threats

Microsoft has launched a new agentic security system for cyber defenders as well as its first cyber-focused AI model

Coca-Cola Reveals Subsidiary Fairlife Suffered Data Breach

Coca Cola claims data was stolen from its Fairlife business after a recent ransomware attack

NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance Is Missing Some Big Names

NVIDIA has launched a new Open Secure AI Alliance to build an “open defense stack for agents”

North Korea’s trade rebounds as reliance on China reaches near-record high

North Korea expanded its foreign trade in 2025 and deepened its dependence on its key commercial partner China, a new RO...

New CREST AI Standards to Deliver AI-Enabled Pentesting Accreditation

CREST’s new AI standards are optional add-on requirements for cybersecurity service providers wishing to demonstrate res...

North Korean defector aid group hit by slew of cyberattacks, lawmaker says

Cyberattack attempts targeting the Korea Hana Foundation, a state-funded organization helping North Korean defectors res...

The First Waves of Amphibious Assault Will Be Unmanned

In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy’s underwater demolition teams prepared the way for U.S. and allied amphibious landings...

How Orbán’s Fall Changed Serbia’s Political Future

In the speech announcing his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin took only minutes to arrive at the ori...

Shoring up the Red Sea: Why the next crisis may begin in the Horn of Africa

The Red Sea is becoming more dangerous, and not only because of the Houthis. Conflicts in the Horn of Africa are converg...

Kim leads ‘V-Day’ events as North Korea highlights Chinese help in Korean War

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended events Monday marking the 73rd anniversary of the “victory in the Fatherland Li...

US seeks UN blacklist for 7 vessels tied to sanctioned North Korea trade

The U.S. submitted a motion to designate seven more vessels suspected of breaching the North Korean sanctions regime Mon...