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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...

Australian Army chief leaves legacy and an open door for further professionalisation

The Australian Army has completed a two-year internal review into the state of the profession and institutional reform t...

New advice to help organisations isolate their vital OT and enabling systems from other networks

Learn how to isolate vital OT and enabling systems from all other networks. This proactive measure can disrupt adversari...

Legacy technology is a national security threat hiding in plain sight

The problem with legacy technology is not that organisations do not know the risks. It is that no mechanism forces a dec...

Zelensky’s Political Storm Starts to Clear

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum ...

Council on Foreign Relations visits Cape Canaveral SFS to discuss plans for the future of launch

The Council on Foreign Relations visited Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June, 26, 2026.

Turning intelligence into advantage: US, Coalition Forces convene for SpaceTAT '26

The event brought together U.S. and Five Eyes coalition space operators, system experts, and intelligence professionals ...

Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are both adopting AI – but differ in how they think about the technology

Terrorist groups may use artificial intelligence for similar purposes, but their organizational cultures shape how they ...

Preserving the legacy of the ISS

The International Space Station is scheduled to be retired as soon as the end of the decade. Jeff Foust reports this is ...

Orbiting Solar Observatories: Nancy Grace Roman and solar science from spinning spacecraft

NASA's next major space telescope, launching in a month, is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman. Trevor Williams di...

Starship may become useful before it becomes reusable

SpaceX's Starship performed its latest suborbital test flight last week, inching closer to orbital missions. Paul Almond...