Fault Lines – Defence bills, warning flares, Pacific cheques
Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions and developments shaping the regional...
AndyC
Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.
LinkedIn fights for the right to tell customers when the feds want their data
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Anthropic signs first Australian data centre agreement
AI giant Anthropic signed its first data centre lease agreement in Australia, two people familiar with the deal said, capitalising...
City of Melbourne appoints acting CTIO
Key points Imka Seecharan has left City of Melbourne after about one year and eight months as chief technology and...
Attackers use SQL injection emails to root Cisco gateways
Key points Cisco warns attackers are exploiting a previously unknown flaw, CVE-2026-76461, rated 9.8 out of 10.0, to run arbitrary...
Google Patches Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Google Patches Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026 Google has patched a high-severity zero-day...
Revolut Data Leak May Trace Back to Compromised Italian Government Accounts
Revolut Data Leak May Trace Back to Compromised Italian Government Accounts Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026 A suspected compromise of...
Big Tech’s AI safety rift signals disruption and disparity for enterprises
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AWS bets that AI agents need an inbox, not another chat window
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Apple just gave every iPhone photo a digital alibi
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Attackers Exploit Issabel Framework Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated OS Command Execution
Ravie LakshmananSep 16, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A critical security flaw in Issabel Framework, a web-based framework for the open-source...
Three Threat Groups Target Russian Enterprises With Backdoors, Ransomware, and Wipers
Enterprises in Russia have emerged as the target of three threat activity clusters tracked as NightEagle, Hacking Cat, and Toy...
One Extension Could Hijack AI Assistants Across Chrome, Comet, Edge, Opera Neon and Claude
Security researchers at Forever Security have shown that one ordinary browser extension could take control of the AI assistants built into five...
Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories
Swati KhandelwalSep 16, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Software Security Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an...
Parallels Desktop Flaw Lets Non-Admin Mac Users Gain Root, but Intel Macs Can’t Install Fix
Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level...