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Over the past few days, a story has been doing the rounds about a fast-growing compliance startup and its sudden parting of ways with a major backer. It’s easy to get pulled into the specifics, the allegations, the responses, and the inevitable back-and-forth. But I …
There’s a persistent assumption in software security that something has to visibly fail before a system is compromised. A vulnerability is exploited, a control is bypassed, or a configuration is misapplied. In most post-incident narratives, there is a clear point where things go wrong. This …
There’s a particular kind of failure in modern software that doesn’t announce itself with alarms or outages. No flashing dashboards, no immediate disruption. Everything appears to be working exactly as expected. Until, quietly and without ceremony, it isn’t. A widely used Python package, pulled in …
In a recent article (see link in the comments below), I revisited a framework I developed more than a decade ago while writing Flat World Navigation, Collaboration and Networking. At the time, I was trying to make sense of what felt like a shifting economic …
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Platforms often introduce safeguards only after problems emerge rather than building protections into their systems from the start. This places an unreasonable burden on children and parents Parents and companies need to act against social media harms Source: The Indian Express Read the full article …
Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) signed on 23 March 2026 a Memorandum of Understanding with National Law University, Jodhpur, which is consistently ranked among the top 5 National Law Universities in India. This partnership marks the first institutional collaboration of its kind between a National Law …
The very first European Deep Tech Week is taking place in Paris this week, aimed at bringing ecosystems closer and building Europe’s technological competitiveness. Cybersecurity will be among the verticals in the spotlight and our very own Sarah Jane Mellor will moderate the panel on …
A few days ago I was reading a thoughtful piece by Om Malik about what he calls Neo Symbolic Capitalism. Halfway through the article I had one of those slightly strange moments of intellectual déjà vu. I realised I had been thinking about these same …
