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Thailand Tightens Cyber‑Defence After European Hacker Attacks
Thailand’s prime minister orders a national push to protect digital and control systems following recent attacks on European infrastructure.
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ISO/IEC 27090: A Security Rulebook for AI Systems Finally Arrives
The world finally has an international standard dedicated to defending AI systems against attack. ISO/IEC 27090:2026, "Cybersecurity — Artificial intelligence (AI) — Addressing security threats and compromises
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Ahimsa in the Age of Algorithms
Gandhian nonviolence, digital violence, and the gaps in our law 2 Oct 2026 · Author : @Sanjana Rathi, CEO - The Cyberdiplomat From the street to the screen Every 2 October,
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The EU Cyber Resilience Act Moves From Paper to Practice: Malta Sets Up Its Enforcement Framework
On 11 September 2026, Malta published Legal Notice 238 of 2026, the Cyber Resilience Regulations, giving the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) a national supervisory and
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Cyber Privateers: What Trump's Hack-Back Memo Actually Changes
On August 13, 2026, President Trump signed a national security memorandum directing the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice to stand up a formal program allowing
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The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident Wasn't a Glitch. It Was a Choice, and Nobody Has Owned It Yet
On July 16, 2026, Hugging Face's security team detected an intrusion into its production infrastructure: a malicious dataset had abused two code-execution paths in Hugging
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China Just Killed Its Most Popular AI Companions Overnight
Imagine opening your favorite app and finding out the AI you've been talking to for months — the one that remembered your bad day, your inside jokes,
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Land, Leadership, and Logins: Why Closing Africa's Gender Gap Starts With Trust
For years, the story told about Africa's digital future has centered on infrastructure: more towers, more fiber, more smartphones. That story is coming true faster than
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Pretty Good Privacy: How One 1991 Tool Still Shapes the Way We Protect Digital Communication
Every day, people send emails and store files they'd rather no one else read — tax records, medical details, business plans, personal messages. In theory, almost anything
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Privacy Badger and the Privacy Paradox: Why We Say One Thing and Click Another
A Small Icon With a Big Job If you've ever installed a browser extension called Privacy Badger, you've seen its logo: a scrappy badger
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"Why a Workshop Just for Women?" — A Question Worth Answering Properly
Whenever we announce a cybersecurity or online safety workshop designed specifically for women entrepreneurs, one question comes up almost every time: isn't online safety the same
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The Catalyst Problem: What Forces Governance Models to Change
Part 5 of 5: Why Cyber Can't Wait for Disaster to Innovate The nuclear industry reorganized its governance structure not through foresight, but through catastrophe. Three
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Building for the Speed of Light: A Cyber Governance Model That Might Actually Work
Part 4 of 5: From Nuclear Ambition to Cyber Reality By now the pattern is clear: cyber regulation has spent the last fifteen years trying to replicate a
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When Insurance Fails: Why Financial Liability Cannot Regulate Cyber
Part 3 of 5: The Collapse of the Enforcement Mechanism In nuclear regulation, insurance companies did what governments and international agencies could not: they created binding compliance. Insurance
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Cyber Supply Chain Regulation: Governing Dual-Use Technology, Cryptography, and the Global Cyber Supply Chain
Introduction Defense and technology surveillance equipment, whether embodied in software, hardware, or a combination of both, is rarely produced by a single actor. These systems are built from
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The Dark Side of New Technology
When innovation cuts both ways Every generation of technology arrives with a promise: better health, safer cities, more convenient lives. But the same tools that make our world
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The World Bank's Quiet Architecture: Cybersecurity and Banking Regulation Across the Global South
When a bank in Montevideo or Maputo suffers a cyber incident, the headlines rarely mention Washington. But behind many of the region's banking-sector cybersecurity frameworks
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Boards Say Cyber Is Strategic. Their Governance Structures Say Otherwise.
New data on S&P 500 disclosures shows cybersecurity oversight increasingly concentrated in audit committees — even as the risk itself has outgrown a compliance framework Ask any
