Technology
Post-quantum cryptography: 31 questions from ASD, CISA and NSA for technology vendors
Australia’s ASD, with the US CISA and NSA, published an updated guide of 31 questions organisations should ask vendors about…
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NASA: applications open until December 3 for a new astronaut class to train for the Moon and Mars
NASA opened applications for its next astronaut class on November 7. Candidates have until December 3; the class will train…
Technology
Microsoft: AI agents are scanning GitHub for exposed secrets – in one attack they reached Azure Key Vault in five minutes
Microsoft Threat Intelligence describes attackers using agentic AI tooling such as ARTEX to find exposed secrets on GitHub and abuse…
Technology
CISA adds Apple WebKit CVE-2024-27834 and SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN CVE-2026-19868 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
CISA has added two more flaws to its KEV catalog because of evidence of active exploitation: an old Apple WebKit…
Europe
Prometheus: Europe’s reusable rocket engine fires at Germany’s upgraded P5 test bench
ESA’s reusable, methane-fuelled Prometheus engine completed hot-fire tests at the upgraded P5 bench in Lampoldshausen, showing multiple restarts without a…
Europe
Hera: first close-up of the asteroid Didymos shows the side DART never photographed
ESA’s Hera planetary-defence spacecraft has sent its first close-up image of Didymos from 60 km, showing a side the DART…
Technology
NASA: contracts worth up to more than $1 billion for Viasat, Astranis and Global Enterprise Solutions to succeed the TDRS relay satellites
NASA picked Astranis, Global Enterprise Solutions and Viasat for Ka-band relay concept contracts with a combined maximum value above $1.06…
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Microsoft: 7.3 billion phishing threats in Q3 2026, with a 41% jump in September
Microsoft Threat Intelligence logged about 7.3 billion phishing threats between July and September 2026, with almost 3 billion in September…
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ISS: Menon and Kutryk install the eighth and final roll-out solar array – what changes for the station
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canada’s Joshua Kutryk installed the eighth and last ISS Roll-Out Solar Array during a six-hour,…
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CISA, FBI, HHS, USDA and DOT warn of attacks on supermarket and cold-storage refrigeration controllers
CISA, the FBI and the US health, agriculture and transport departments urge critical infrastructure operators to harden industrial refrigeration and…
Military & Defense
Rassvet: Russia is already using its own “Starlink” over Ukraine, Kyiv says
Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) says Russia is already using its new Rassvet satellite network for military communications over Ukraine, aiming…
Technology
X-70 Fractal: NASA unveils its new crewed experimental aircraft for flight research
NASA unveiled the X-70 Fractal, a crewed high-performance research aircraft with a rapidly reconfigurable flight control system and a 2,000-pound…