Military & security

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who championed the push to integrate drone technology and digital innovation into the military.

AI coding agents set up projects by reading documentation and installing the dependencies it lists, without verifying their names, sources, or known vulnerabilities. By editing only a README, requirements file, or Makefile, an attacker can redirect the agent to an untrusted registry, a known-vulnerable version, or a wrong-but-plausible name: documentation becomes a vector for code execution. We present the first systematic evaluation of package-install-time supply-chain attacks delivered through

Two men each sentenced to five years and six months in prison for 2024 incident that led to months of disruption

The shipyard will focus on both defense and commercial vessels, the company announced today.

The deployment of autonomous cyber-physical systems in safety-critical environments requires closed-loop control strategies (i.e., policies) that are not only performant but also provably safe and robust. While learning-based methodologies such as Reinforcement Learning offer flexible and scalable approaches to automatically synthesize such controllers, they typically lack the formal guarantees necessary for safe deployment. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel simulation-based methodology to

A retired judge advocate explains how a future administration could decide who to prosecute for the illegal strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats. The post How to Choose Which Military Members to Hold Accountable for Illegal Boat Strikes appeared first on Just Security .

* DOJ and SEC agree to freeze discovery in SEC's civil case over the Biglaw insider trading scheme, clarifying that the criminal case will be the main event. [ Court Listener ] * WilmerHale faces class action over data breach. [ Law360 ] * R. Kelly believes he can fly straight out of prison, asking Donald Trump for clemency by citing DOJ weaponization against him. [ TMZ ] * Subpoenas for Biglaw capitulators "reopen wounds." Self-inflicted wounds, but wounds nonetheless. [ Bloomberg Law News ] *

Federal law specifies that involuntary mobilization is to be used only to provide military forces for war or national emergencies. The post Why It’s Wrong to Involuntarily Mobilize Reserve JAGs for Immigration Cases appeared first on Just Security .

The potential deal comes few days after Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi traded fire, ending a four-year truce.

What GAO Found A resilient and skilled cybersecurity workforce is essential to protecting federal information technology (IT) systems and enabling the government’s day-to-day functions. The Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce program, managed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), provides opportunities for members of the federal cyber workforce to gain experience in IT, cybersecurity, and other cyber-related positions. Agencies can participate in the program by either advertising a positio

Alta Ares CEO Hadrien Canter on Europe's lost air superiority, the field data loop behind drone interception, and why quantity is now the quality.

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

In a special video program, Breaking Defense walks you through the past, present and future of Germany’s burgeoning defense market.

Local banks are under tighter regulatory scrutiny as the Prudential Authority ramps up oversight of AI, cloud computing, cyber security and other emerging tech-related risks.

Google is removing thousands of articles from search due to spurious DMCA requests. The post US copyright law has been weaponised to silence reporting around the world appeared first on Press Gazette .

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation, forcing companies to rethink how they manage cyber risk.

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation, forcing companies to rethink how they manage cyber risk.

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation, forcing companies to rethink how they manage cyber risk.

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation, forcing companies to rethink how they manage cyber risk.

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation, forcing companies to rethink how they manage cyber risk.

Cyber criminals are not measuring your security posture by the number of tools you’ve purchased, says John Mc Loughlin, CEO of J2 Software.

The relationship between Congress and the Pentagon over the past year has been marked by public disagreements and frustrations over lawmakers’ concerns about the Iran War, and by what some lawmakers view as politically motivated firings of top military leaders. In many ways, the House and Senate versions of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act reflect lawmakers’ efforts to check the Pentagon’s policy power.Innovation efforts are generally a bright spot in these political battl

Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. The special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page.The United States is fighting a new kind of global competition — over supply chains, chips, and sanctio

Iberian hackers carried out a variety of cyberattacks and laundered the winnings through complex financial networks.

EU negotiators on Wednesday evening agreed on a new short-term €115 million funding programme to support small defence businesses and their disruptive innovations in 2027. The AGILE programme will ...

The CyberSG R&D Programme Office (CRPO) is pleased to present CyberSG Connect: AI, Trust and Cyber Resilience, a two-day flagship dialogue workshop that brings together internationally renowned ...

Vulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections. Security researchers do find real weaknesses embedded in the code and operations of U.S. voting systems, just like they do with power grids, banks, and […] The post FAQ: Voting System Vulnerabilities and How They Can Be Weaponized appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology .

YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […] This story continues at The Next Web

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) on Wednesday addressed the international race to achieve dominance over artificial intelligence and the importance behind each country’s efforts to take the lead. “China and Russia and Iran would love nothing more than for us to say, absolutely, no data science. And that is because it is a cognitive warfare. They...

Suspends next ⁠phase of cyber security certification program.

The Gold Eagle program will allowe industry, critical infrastructure operators and the government to use artificial intelligence to rapidly detect, prioritize and patch cybersecurity vulnerabilities, officials said.

“We really used to be considered icing on the cake,” US Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters. Now, “I think we are more the eggs in the cake batter.”

In which David A. Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, takes issue with a recent op ed in Breaking Defense concerning the “air littoral” in the Iran conflict.

The high court's 9-0 Cox v. Sony ruling hands AI developers a ready-made defense against claims that their models are built for infringement.

Threat actors compromised AsyncAPI packages and weaponized trusted CI/CD workflows to distribute malware through npm. This analysis breaks down the attack chain, payload delivery, and recommended ...