Security News Update for August 2, 2026

Google Patched More Than 1,000 Chrome bugs in the Last Two Releases
Hacking Group Threatens EU if they Don’t Abandon Chat Control Plans
Which AI Should I Use?
Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash – Cybersecurity AI at Half the Cost
Impact of OpenAI’s Hack of Hugging Face
CMMC Q&A
Chinese Release Model Weights, Tech Information on Kimi K3
Google is Working on Yet Another New AI Chip
New York Court Ruling Significant for Tech Firms
South Carolina/Georgia Health System Closes Offices After Malware Attack
UK-Based CAF Bank Down for a Week; 14,000 Customers Have No Access to Money

Security News for the week ending July 31, 2026

This week’s news: Even Angelia Jolie and Robert DeNiro get hacked, post quantum cryptography vs Mythos, what is the weak spot in the electricity grid worldwide, US Space Force has new way to jam enemy satellites and data center builders are testing a new strategy to get enough water. Details here.

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Security News Update for August 9, 2026

Popular AI Meeting Notetaker App Lets Anyone Join Any Meeting
Some Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Leak Password Hashes
Is OpenAI Astra Really a Breakthrough?
Who is Liable if Your AI Goes Off Course?
Anthropic, Pentagon Clash Over First Amendment Claims
Meta AI Joins the Club of AI Tool Providers whose AIs Hacked Other Companies
Well, AI is Not Perfect
CMMC Q&A
New York State Adds $9 Million to the Pot to Help Water Utilities Get More Secure
Feds Give 3 Days to Path N-able God Mode Flaw Under Active Attack
Small Towns Shouldn’t Have to Defend America’s Water Supply from Iran
Cyber Attacks President Blamed on Minnesota Incompetence Extended to Other states
Brinks Home Security Hacked
Crypto Hardware Wallet Flaw Drains $89 Mil Across Thousands of Wallets
CAF Bank Back Online – Offers Charities $10 for Their Pain
Abbott Laboratories Lost 30 Million Records From its Cancer Diagnostics Biz

Security News for the week ending August 7, 2026

This week’s news: Data center approvals in Texas halted, DEFCON security conference is latest to ban smart glasses with recording, in case you thought Flock surveillance is okay, cyber attacks on water utilities now hit more than a dozen states and if some legislators have their way, get ready for radical changes to the Internet. Details here.

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Security News Update for August 16, 2026

Flock Planned to Turn 350,000 Uber, Lyft and Delivery Drives into Surveillance Sources
Cities Are Ditching Flock. Why? To Be More Covert
A Tiny Little Security Misconfiguration
CMMC Q&A
N-able Releases Second Hotfix as Attacks Continue
Microsoft is Improving – Only 400 Patches This Month
Colorado Publishes Draft ADMT Regs
Google’s Post Quantum Crypto (PQC) Strategy 101
Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Breach Impacts Banks, Retailers and Others
Hacking Group ExfilSquad Launches Stolen Data Web Site
Another Microsoft Defender Zero Day – ShieldBreak

Security News for the week ending August 14, 2026

This week’s news: Apple’s chip maker is sitting on a billion dollars of chips waiting for memory, bet you didn’t think of this captain obvious, more law enforcement personnel arrested for stalking using Flock cameras, FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto and cops are being told “DO NOT MENTION AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS”. Details here.

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Security News Update for August 23, 2026

Co-Pilot Snitch Allows Hackers to Steal AI Data Using Undocumented URL Parameter
Hackers Have New (Expensive) Denial of Service Attack Method
CMMC Q&A
Colorado Releases Proposed Rules for AI-Assisted Hiring and Employment Decisions
ChatGPT Updates Apple Messages Integration
United Health Sued for Ignoring Cybersecurity, Leading to Massive Breach
DoJ Settles Child Privacy Litigation with TikTok/ByteDance for $400 Million
Score One for the Defenders
Bloomberg on the Meta Trial and Potential $1.4 Trillion in Damages
Ring Central Gets its Bell Rung
UT San Antonio Takes Systems Offline After Attack
Lender Heights Finance Loses Data on 750,000 Customers

Security News for the week ending August 21, 2026

This week’s news: Catch and release, cybersecurity edition, OpenAI institutes new safeguards, you see a hot chick-you don’t look them up in the [Flock] database, Anthropic plans to watermark Claude’s AI-generated text and FCC bans foreign made robots and connected power inverters. Learn more here.

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Security News Update for August 30, 2026

Cities Ditching Flock for?Who? Verkada
The News About Last Month’s Attacks on Water Systems Just Keeps Getting Worse
OpenAI Says Jalapeno Beats Nvidia Blackwell
Ukraine to Give Britain Access to Battlefield Data to Train AI
Federal Judge Says DoD Anthropic Supply Chain Designation is Illegal
When is Child Porn Legal?
130 Companies Warn of Risk of AI
CMMC Q&A
Ubiquiti in the Spotlight Again
UK Gov Wants to be Able to Ban Risky Tech and Do So in Secret
CISA Insights From Two “Red Team” Exercises
Employee Benefits Platform Paylogix Hacked
Workwear Retailer Carhartt Hacked; Loses Data on 12 Million
Distributed Finance (DeFi) Protocol Moonwell Hit for $8.7 Million
McKesson Discloses Breach of 284 Million

Security News for the week ending August 28, 2026

This week’s news: this is not a surprise – fingerprint security is not foolproof, Microsoft discloses Entra ID flaw, ServiceNow patches three max severity bugs, 130 companies warn of risk of AI and president say communities opposing data centers are making a mistake. Learn more here.

Read the August 30, 2026 issue (PDF)