South Korea’s new rule — requiring facial recognition to activate any new smartphone from Dec 23 — is a decisive move that will ripple beyond the peninsula. This isn’t a subtle nudge. It’s a structural change to how identities are verified at the point of sale, and it will shiftContinue Reading
The Xiaohongshu ban has landed like a thunderclap for many Taiwanese creators: nail art tutorials, late-night food reviews, everyday diary posts — all swept under a single, opaque policy decision. People are angry. Rightfully so. “It’s just nail designs,” one user wrote. “Why am I punished for a hashtag?” AnotherContinue Reading
October’s revelation that the UK government was breached is not a distant headline to shrug off. It is a glaring alarm bell — loud, insistent, and impossible to ignore. British trade minister Chris Bryant confirmed what the Sun had reported: “There certainly has been a hack,” and while he stoppedContinue Reading
Late on December 18, a flicker across the official White House Live News page jolted more than a few eyeballs: a live stream featuring a bearded man with headphones, seated in front of a microphone, appeared out of nowhere and then vanished about an hour later. It looked ordinary onContinue Reading
A passenger ferry was found to be infected with a Remote Access Trojan — malware that can hand control of vital systems to someone who is not on board. That description alone should make anyone who runs a small or medium business sit up straight and take immediate action. ThisContinue Reading
Urgent: update your iPhone or iPad to iOS 26.2 right now. This isn’t hyperbole. SingCert under the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has flagged real-world exploitation of flaws that Apple has just patched. Apple released iOS 26.2 on December 12 to address more than 20 security issues — twoContinue Reading
When a popular app that delivers nail art ideas, recipe tips and weekend travel hacks suddenly becomes the focus of a national ban, people do not react with calm detachment. They get angry. They panic. They scramble. That is what happened in Taiwan when authorities moved to block Xiaohongshu —Continue Reading
Every smartphone is a small miracle of sensors, radios and memory—and governments are starting to treat that miracle like state property. Recent moves in India to turn phones into always-on tracking devices are not an abstract debate about policy; they are a test of how much private life a modernContinue Reading
Germany’s public attribution of the August attack on its air safety systems to APT28 (Fancy Bear) and the naming of the Storm 1516 campaign as an attempt to undermine February’s federal election is not a distant drama — it is a blueprint for what modern statecraft looks like when warContinue Reading
Apple’s latest round of cyberthreat notifications — alerts sent to users in 84 countries on Dec 2 — is not a distant tech headline. It is a loud wake-up call. I felt that sting the first time my phone vibrated with an urgent message from Apple: a terse, official alertContinue Reading
