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With the growing emphasis on national security and social protection, as outlined by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, it is time for the UK government to take community media more seriously. Starmer’s argument that "economic security is national security" highlights the need for resilience and stability across all sectors. Media security must be central to this discussion—not just in terms of countering external threats like disinformation, but also in reinforcing the civic and social infrastructure that underpins a stable, democratic society. Community media is an underutilised but essential resource in this effort.

At least 10 were injured when Al Araby's Tehran office was struck on Mar 29, 2026 (Al Jazeera). The attack raises urgent diplomatic and media-security risks for Gulf–Iran ties.

Digital Rights Management in Media & Entertainment Market from 2018 to 2021 and its CAGR from 2018 to 2021, and also forecasts its market size to the end of 2030 and its expected to grow with a CAGR o...

Digital Rights Management in Media & Entertainment Market from 2018 to 2021 and its CAGR from 2018 to 2021, and also forecasts its market size to the end of 2030 and its expected to grow with a CAGR o...

A recent report highlights a significant increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting media publishers, driven by geopolitical tensions and global events. The article cites data from Cloudflare, which notes a 519% surge in such attacks, attributed to conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, as well as the World Cup. These attacks, often orchestrated by state-sponsored actors or hacktivist groups, aim to disrupt media operations, spread disinformation, and undermine public trust. The article explains how the scale of these attacks has grown due to the availability of botnet networks and the strategic use of social media to amplify their impact. Experts warn that media organizations must invest in robust cybersecurity measures, including traffic filtering, real-time monitoring, and collaboration with cybersecurity firms. The piece also discusses the broader implications of these attacks on democratic discourse, emphasizing the need for international cooperation to address cyber threats. While the article acknowledges the challenges faced by publishers, it also highlights efforts to mitigate risks through technological innovation and policy reforms.

Media capture, declining trust, and disinformation threaten press freedom and democratic accountability worldwide.

Nontraditional security threats refer to threats that do not involve direct participation in military-to-military conflict. Still, the issues that seem small can have a significant impact on a state…

What does the Washington Post email breach tell us? Media organizations need to take a data-centric security approach to data in emails and files.

PixelSmash (CVE-2026-8461) is a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the MagicYUV decoder of FFmpeg's libavcodec library. It arises from inconsistent handling of chroma plane heights during slice processing, leading to a one-row h

Stephanie Arnett/MITTR | Midjourney, Envato A few miles away, White House aides and reporters scrambled to figure out whether a viral online image of the exploding building was in fact real.  It wa…