WASHINGTON: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an actively exploited Windows Shell zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog Thursday, mandating that all federal civilian agencies apply emergency security patches across enterprise systems before November 4, 2026. CISA issues federal… [Read more.]
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CISA, NSA & FBI Warn Foreign Adversaries Are Siphoning US Frontier AI Models via Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns
Federal intelligence agencies reveal foreign state-linked labs are systematically siphoning U.S. frontier AI reasoning to bypass GPU sanctions. [Read more.]
Pentagon Names 4 Laser and Microwave Weapons for 5-Base, 12-Month Counter-Drone Pilot
The Pentagon picked three lasers and one microwave weapon for a one-year pilot at five U.S. bases, days after Hegseth ordered faster counter-drone approvals. [Read more.]
CISA Declares a CVE ‘Quality Era’ as Vulnerability Volume Heads Toward 96,000 This Year
CISA’s new framework shifts the CVE Program from growth to data quality as 2026 CVE counts head toward 96,000, the NVD rations enrichment and the weekly Vulnerability Bulletin ends Sept. 28. [Read more.]
DHS Compresses $626M Network and Cyber Consolidation Into a Seven-Week Competition
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has set a seven-week schedule to award a $626 million contract that would consolidate network, cloud and cybersecurity operations across the entire department under a single vendor. The final solicitation is due Oct. 1, and DHS anticipates an… [Read more.]
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Decades in Perspective: Asymmetric Threats and Diplomatic Extraction Lessons
Four decades following the watershed seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, counter-terrorism strategists, special operations planners, and diplomatic security directors continue to dissect the operational lessons tha... [Read more.]
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A New, Broader Understanding of the Nature of War
Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is the continuation of politics by other means. In the modern era of hybrid warfare and gray-zone confrontation, that aphorism must be inverted:… [Read more.]
