Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear
Flock reveals little about where its license plate readers are assembled, but the answer could have geopolitical and cybersecurity implications.Photo-Illustration:...
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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.
U.S. CISA adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026...
Chosen Brick, Iran’s Surveillance Malware
Chosen Brick, Iran’s Surveillance Malware Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026 UK, US, and Dutch agencies expose Chosen Brick, Iranian malware...
How Candidates Could Use AI for Good
How Candidates Could Use AI for Good This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The...
September Patch Tuesday haul includes 973 CVEs
Microsoft on September 9 released 973 patches affecting 39 product families. Of those, 114 of the addressed issues are considered...
On research security, our divisions are the real vulnerability
Scholars named in public for entanglement with a foreign regime, international research collaborations quietly binned, and institutional partnerships needing to...
Australia’s iron ore exports are about more than tonnage
Australia can remain indispensable to steelmaking while making less money from it. In 2025–26 dollars, the government’s June outlook projects...
Smashing Security podcast #485: These researchers got drunk to hack an LG TV
Researchers wanted to test if LG’s smart TVs come with any security risks – but their lawyers noticed a snag:...
Salesforce’s massive outage exposes the hidden risks of cloud dependencies
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> The incident shows why cloud modernization alone doesn't eliminate resilience risks, and why...
The lesson from Germany: under-reacting to hybrid threats is dangerous
Berlin’s hurried shift to actively defending against hybrid threats shows the danger of cumulative under-reaction to hostile state-backed activity. Underreaction...
FTC Rescinds 2021 Policy Statement on Health App Data Breaches
On September 9, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) rescinded its 2021 Policy Statement on Breaches by Health Apps...
BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar
BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026 Lumen exposes BambooToken, a...
Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight
The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast...
Cohesity report finds 2% of Australian organisations prepared for frontier AI cyberattacks
Only 2% of Australian organisations believe their current cyber recovery plans are equipped to withstand threats posed by “frontier AI”...
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...
