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Top 10 Best Cloud Encryption Solutions in 2026

Encryption is table stakes in every cloud, but key control is where strategy lives: who holds the keys, where they physically reside, and whether a cloud provider or a foreign subpoena can ever touch them. {Read full article here}

USDOT Awards $1.1 Billion for Airport Upgrades and Runway Safety Technology

The U.S. Department of Transportation has made a $1.1 billion investment in upgrading critical airport infrastructure, adding family-friendly features, and installing vehicle movement area transmitters (VMATS) onto airport vehicles across the U.S. {Read full article here}

How Deepfakes Are Used to Commit Crimes (and How to Spot Them)

In January 2024, an employee at the engineering firm Arup joined a video call with five colleagues, including the company’s UK-based Chief Financial Officer. Every person on the call except the employee was a deepfake. Believing the instructions they received from these colleagues were genuine, the employee authorized 15 transfers totaling USD 25 million to accounts in Hong Kong. {Read full article here}

Tackling Spyware Abuse: What States Must Do Under International Law to Protect Journalists and Strengthen Security

The Citizen Lab, a digital-security research group at the University of Toronto, published a report this past July revealing that Stelios Kouloglou, a prominent Greek investigative journalist and former member of the European Parliament, was hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware multiple times in 2022 and 2023. {Read full article here}

Last Updated on September 18, 2026 by Jim Kimmons

Posted in Global Security, High Tech Spying & Services, In the News.