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...
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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On September 9, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) rescinded its 2021 Policy Statement on Breaches by Health Apps...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...
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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