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NatInterest There are six compelling reasons the U.S. Navy cannot repeat its tanker escort campaign of the 1980s against Iran today—most of them highlighting broader deficiencies in its… Source link

On August 4, Kazakhstani Minister for Trade and Integration Arman Shakkaliyev announced that the Russian e-commerce platform Wildberries would expand its warehouse capacity in the country. According to the minister, Wildberries plans to build 260,000 square meters of storage, split between Astana and Almaty, expanding its capacity more than eightfold from its current 46,000 square meters of leased warehouse space.  The announcement comes following a July marked by more than 20 attacks on Wildberries’ logistical hubs across Russia, also affecting Kazakh sellers on the platform who have lost an estimated $3.2 million worth of goods. Despite media reports framing the…

Morgan Phillips, Fox News Elbridge Colby leads classified effort to expand shorter-range nuclear capabilities to deter China and Russia Source link

TAMPA — In recent years, the Zero Trust concept of cybersecurity where users and devices are subjected to multiple levels of authentication was thought to be the final answer to protecting data and intellectual property.  But now artificial intelligence (AI) and especially agentic AI — where bots crawl through networks sometimes with a mind on their own to complete assigned tasks — is forcing the Defense Department and Intelligence Community (IC) to rethink how it implements Zero Trust at the enterprise level, according to the IC’s chief information officer. Because agentic AI is designed to operate autonomously, it may need…

LAS VEGAS — As dozens of small water utilities report cyber intrusions—possibly from Iran-linked groups–an industry association and a university are teaming up to help raise their defenses.The Water Watch Center will provide cyber mitigation support to utilities that serve fewer than 10,000 people—that is, most of the nation’s community water systems. Launched at this year’s DEF CON hacker convention, the initiative is a collaboration of the National Rural Water Association and DEF CON Franklin, a project of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.More than 30 community water systems in Minnesota were targeted late last…

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the two largest global memory chipmakers, have spent roughly two years testing chipmaking equipment from the Chinese firm Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC), according to local news reports. The trials, first reported by Reuters on August 5, amount to a hedge against tightening U.S. export controls that could eventually cut Western companies off from servicing tools already installed inside the two firms’ Chinese factories. Samsung has denied testing AMEC equipment at its China site or considering such a test, and SK Hynix has not commented on the matter. Even so, engineers at both companies began…

James Wirtz, Military Strategy Magazine Midway reveals much about the connections among tactics, operations, and strategy when it comes to war at sea, connections that remain relevant… Source link

LAS VEGAS — After spending roughly six weeks analyzing Dominion voting systems used in Puerto Rico’s 2024 elections, Mojave Research came back to the Trump administration with findings that startled its researchers. The systems contained at least a dozen high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities. Passwords were reused, firewalls were disabled and basic cryptographic protections were poorly implemented. And in Puerto Rico, active cellular hardware modems opened additional pathways into underlying software that was thought to be isolated.But the small cybersecurity firm found no evidence that any of those weaknesses had actually been exploited, or that votes had been changed. The company…

The region’s maritime borders are hotly contested, but on land there’s the real risk of conflict, too. Source link

Seth G. Jones, The Wall Street Journal The Iran war proves it, and the Chinese threat is greater. We need new thinking about defense. Source link