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Opinion

From Unusual Path to the Top: What Tarah Wheeler's Career Tells Us About Who Gets to Lead in Cybersecurity

Tarah Wheeler is CISO at TPO Group, a firm advising organisations where security failures carry real-world consequences. Her route there looked nothing like the standard playbook.

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Policy & Regulation

Why Cybersecurity Teams Are Starting to Speak the Language of Business

Security programmes built around technical checklists often fail to show executives what is actually at risk. A growing push asks teams to tie every control directly to business outcomes.

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Policy & Regulation

Tasmania Becomes Last Australian State to Outlaw Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images

After years of victims being turned away by police with no clear law to apply, Tasmania's government has announced it will criminalise the sharing — or threatening to share — intimate images without consent, including AI-generated fakes.

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AI Security

Australia Raises Alarm Over AI Scribes Listening In on Doctor Visits

Federal health officials are warning that AI tools recording patient conversations in GP clinics may pose serious privacy risks, and regulators are now weighing whether new rules are needed.

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AI Security

Five Eyes spy chiefs warn AI is shrinking the window to stop cyberattacks — and boards need to act now

The heads of five Western cybersecurity agencies say artificial intelligence is already changing how fast criminals can strike, and the warning is aimed squarely at company boards, not IT teams.

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Policy & Regulation

American Tech Is Quietly Powering the Global Scam Machine

A joint investigation by AP and FRONTLINE found that tools built by US companies are helping criminals run fraud operations at industrial scale, and most victims never see it coming.

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Policy & Regulation

Australians Are Safer Online Than Last Year — Unless They Run a Small Business

A new government survey found cybercrime fell across Australia in 2025, but small business owners are facing more legal and staffing fallout than ever before.

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Policy & Regulation

Chris Inglis on the Snowden Era: What NSA Got Wrong, and What CISOs Should Still Be Asking

The former NSA Deputy Director reflects on institutional failures, insider threat detection, and why 'enculturation' may matter more than access controls.

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Policy & Regulation

Citizen Lab: Cellebrite UFED Used on Pivovarov iPhone Three Months After Russia Sales Halt

Forensic traces and a Russian court filing place a UFED extraction on the activist's device in June 2021, raising hard questions about post-sale controls on dual-use forensic kit.

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Policy & Regulation

Compliance Theatre Has a Reckoning Coming. FedRAMP 20x Is the Opening Act.

Most SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports audit a curated version of history, not operational reality. A federal cloud-security overhaul is forcing the question nobody wanted to answer: does passing audits actually mean anything?

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Opinion

RSnake's Case for a CISO Code of Ethics

Robert Hansen argues that kickbacks, no-show jobs, and shelfware deals aren't just embarrassing, they're a national security problem.

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Policy & Regulation

When Legacy Infrastructure Becomes the Soft Underbelly of Your AI Agent Stack

Governance frameworks like NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act assume the pipes under the model are secure. They often aren't.

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Policy & Regulation

Macron Pushes Wealthy Democracies Toward a Unified AI Regulatory Front

The French president wants the G7 crowd to stop freelancing on AI governance and start coordinating. Whether that translates into anything enforceable is a different question entirely.

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Policy & Regulation

India Sets a 12-Hour Clock on Exploited Vulnerabilities. Can Enterprises Actually Do It?

CERT-In's new AI-threat framework resets expectations around patch velocity, but the real test is whether organizations even know what's exposed.

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Policy & Regulation

California Sues 23andMe's Bankruptcy Successor Over 2023 Data Breach

AG Rob Bonta is going after Chrome Holding Co., the shell 23andMe rebranded into after its bankruptcy, arguing the company failed to adequately protect the genetic and personal data of millions of users.

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