From the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a welcome email describes the situation in South Africa and then turns to global support: I’m getting in touch to share some new reports and resources to support media freedom work in East and Southern Africa. Journalists who hold power to account are increasingly being targeted through “lawfare” tactics that silence, intimidate and financially...

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Brandon Vigliarolo reports: At least 2.2 million vehicles fitted with dealer-installed KARR and SWDS security systems are vulnerable to nearby Bluetooth attacks that can unlock doors or prevent a stopped vehicle from starting, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego. An advance look at the research published by UCSD this week (the full writeup won’t be...

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MEE reports: New national security legislation being rushed through the UK’s parliament could criminalise British foreign correspondents and NGO workers engaging with designated state-backed groups, experts warn. The National Security (State Threats) Bill, which is moving through its final stages in parliament this week, hands the UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sweeping powers to designate as a threat any...

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Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice reflects on how we may overfocus on identifying threat actors exploiting vulnerabilities while failing to focus enough on root causes and incident response. He highlights what he calls a structural fragility that cannot be ignored: that many organizations continue to collect, centralize, and retain vast amounts of sensitive...

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