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Stronger deterrence will avoid war over Taiwan (Peter Jennings, The Strategist)

Xi Jinping is positioning the People’s Liberation Army to bring Taiwan under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. The Taiwanese assess perhaps a...

The fault lines in Australian and Indonesian views of their strategic future (Editorial Board, ANU – East Asia Forum)

The irate French reaction to the AUKUS defence deal provided plenty of fodder for the international media. Much has been made of Australia’s duplicitous...

AUKUS mixed reception a symptom of strategic fault-lines in Southeast Asia (Evan A Laksmana, East Asia Forum)

AUKUS, the new trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States that launched last month, has had a mixed reception....

Cornell Researchers Analyze Major Trends in Urban Tech (Brandon Paykamian, Government Technology)

A team of researchers at Cornell Tech, Cornell University’s tech-focused research campus, has developed a forecast for how technologies like artificial intelligence could shape cities in...

One Year In, StateRAMP Program Gets Off the Ground (Katya Maruri, Governement Technology)

The State Risk and Authorization Management Program, or StateRAMP, launched in early 2021 with the aim of solving a problem many governments are encountering in...

Trickbot spreads malware through new distribution channels (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

TrickBot operators are back and expand the distribution channels with partnership with cybercrime affiliates. Trickbot spreads malware through new distribution channelsSecurity Affairs

Russia-Linked TA505 targets financial institutions in a new malspam campaign (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Russia-linked TA505 group leverages a lightweight Office file to spread malware in a campaign, tracked as MirrorBlast, aimed at financial institutions. Russia-Linked TA505 targets financial...

US Treasury FinCEN linked $5.2 billion in BTC transactions to ransomware payments (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) linked roughly $5.2 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions to ransomware. US Treasury FinCEN linked $5.2B in...

DDS Security Clearance Tool Evolves into ‘SITH’ Insider Threat Program (Aaron Boyd, Nextgov)

An automated background investigations prototype developed by the Defense Digital Service is being retooled to focus instead on identifying insider threats, including a rebranding...

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