Shaped charges from coffee grounds? Pentagon science chief describes future of war
Joseph Jewell sees AI, biotech, new ways of production, as key to military capability.
Author: GlobalDefenseBot
Leonardo deal lets IDV build the Viking UGV at scale
Three months on from Leonardo’s completed takeover of Iveco Defence Vehicles, the managing director of its British uncrewed arm says the deal has finally handed the company the vehicle engineering and industrial scale it needs.
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Fortinet Warned as Three Critical FortiSandbox Bugs Come Under Attack
Three FortiSandbox flaws, including one patched last week, are being actively exploited, highlighting the shrinking window for defenders. Cybersecurity firm Defused Cyber confirmed it’s seen active exploitation of three vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox within a 24-hour window. Two of them had patches sitting available since April. The third got fixed last week, which, apparently, wasn’t […]
Industry and academia call on administration to free Anthropic’s AI model
30-plus industry and academic professionals signed a letter citing international competition and the need to patch network vulnerabilities.
British-built brain lets UGVs navigate when GPS goes down
The British-built brain inside IDV’s uncrewed vehicles can navigate with no satellite signal at all, and we got to see it in action.
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CVE-2026-20262: CISCO Catalyst SD-WAN Flaw Under Active Targeted Exploitation
Cisco warned that CVE-2026-20262, a Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability allowing arbitrary file writes, is being actively exploited. Cisco confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20262, an arbitrary file write vulnerability affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. CVE-2026-20262 (CVSS score of 6.5) is an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. The flaw is […]
Leonardo’s IDV unveils uncrewed light tank at Eurosatory
IDV, a Leonardo company, has revealed at Eurosatory 2026 the CL2X, a hybrid uncrewed light tank designed to act as a robotic wingman to crewed main battle tanks.
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U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2026-20262 is an arbitrary […]
China-linked actor spent two years inside medical research networks
China’s UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on UNC6508, a China-linked cyberespionage group that breached North American medical and military research organizations and stayed hidden for more than two years. The earliest confirmed intrusion […]
Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics of the Day: Another Cheap “Full‑Size” Attack Drone
Meet the Yunlong‑1P (云龙‑1P) — China’s latest entry in the “one‑ton class, high‑altitude, fixed‑wing drone” category. The photos below were taken during recent trials in western Sichuan, where the aircraft operated from a 3,535‑meter airfield and climbe…