Security News Update for May 3, 2026
- China’s DeepSeek V4 Ups the Ante for US Companies
- Google announces up to $40 Billion investment in Anthropic; Amazon Invests $25 billion
- AI wiped out an entire company in 9 seconds
- Google Fixes a 10/10 Gemini Bug
- CMMC Q&A
- CISA and its Partners Release “Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services”
- 732 Byte Exploit Can Take Over All Linux Kernels Released After 2017
- Asia for Asia – Blocks Foreign Takeovers
- The IT Behind Epstein’s Empire – Camera Systems, Mystery Manager and the DoJ
- Eurail admits 1.3 TB of data including passports stolen in December breach
Security News for the week ending May 1, 2026
This week’s news: China blocks Meta’s takeover of Manus, officials consider 72 hour deadline for patching federal systems, Congress does what it does best – punt on Section 702, Toronto hackers go mobile and hack thousands at once and White House asks industry about their security practices. Learn more here.
Read the May 3, 2026 issue (PDF)
Security News Update for May 10, 2026
- Digicert Revokes Certificates After Support Portal Hack
- UK Plans to Require Every Man, Woman, Child to ID Themselves Before Access to Most of the Internet
- Mozilla (Firefox) Patches Over 400 Bugs This Month, Some Over a Decade Old, Due to Use of Mythos
- Microsoft Releases E7 w/ Microsoft Agent 365
- Microsoft Releases Legal Agent for Word
- North Korea Creates Systemic Attack Vector Targeting AI Coding Agents
- US Dept. of Commerce Inks Deal with Microsoft, Google and Twitter to Test AI Models
- AI claims to be a licensed Psychiatrist
- CMMC Q&A
- Microsoft Releases E7 w/ Microsoft Agent 365
- GitHub Suffers Critical Bug Causing Loss of Merges
- GitHub Fixes Remote Code Execution Bug that Exposed Millions of Repositories
- Two 20 Year Old Bugs in PostgreSQL Exposed
- White House Rethinking Removing Barriers to AI (Hacking Everyone)
- Zuckerberg Sued Personally Over Copyright Infringement
- Canvas LMS Breach Impacts 275 Million Students
- Army Contractor Leaks Military Base Photos, Personal Information, For a Year
Security News for the week ending May 8, 2026
This week’s news: 46% of Kids Say Age Checks Are Easy to Bypass, Phasing Out Chinese tech could cost Europe $400 billion, 60 percent of MD5 hashes are crackable in under an hour, EU to simplify AI Act and hello boss: Chinese realtime deepfake software. Learn more here.
Read the May 10, 2026 issue (PDF)
Security News Update for May 17, 2026
- GM Pays Largest Ever California Privacy Settlement
- Home Depot Installs Flock Surveillance Cameras
- AI Leads to False Arrests and Even Convictions
- Amazon Workers Are Maximizing Use of AI – But Only in Reports
- ChatGPT Usage at all-time-low as QuitGPT Dents Popularity
- CMMC Q&A
- Europe Continues to Push Away from American Tech – Munich Ditches Windows
- Apple Begins to Realize that Their Customers Might Want to Talk to Non-Apple Users
- The Geniuses at the FTC Realize that Blocking Patches to Millions of Consumer Routers is NOT Good Security
- Canadian Bill to Force Tech Companies to Install Surveillance Backdoors Moves Forward
- Former L3Harris Exec Who Sold Hacking Tools to the Russians to pay $10 Mil
- Texas sues Netflix Over Data Surveillance Practices
- Canvas LMS Breach Impacts 275 Million Students – FOLLOW UP
- Cushman & Wakefield Hit by ShinyHunters – Leaked 50 GB of Data
Security News for the week ending May 15, 2026
This week’s news: EU continues its purge of US tech companies, WHEN China’s AI catches up to Mythos, smart move by the Secret Service, Musk caves. Again. And, Mythos AI destroyed 5 years of Apple security in a week. Learn more here.
Read the May 17, 2026 issue (PDF)
Security News Update for May 24, 2026
- Researcher Microsoft Ticked Off Releases Two Zero Days the Day After Patch Tuesday
- CISA Admin Leaked AWS Govcloud Keys on Github
- Musk Loses Lawsuit Against OpenAI
- CMMC Q&A
- China Gets Creative With Power and Cooling for Large AI Data Center
- Google Just Killed Off Search to Control the Narrative
- Another Cisco Zero-Day; This Time SD-WAN Bug Grants Admin Access
- Is Open Source Bug Free? AI Finds 18-Year-Old Bug in Nginx
- Shark Tank Personality Kevin O’Leary is Building an AI Data Center in Utah
- Another Critical Industry Infrastructure Group Forms Private CISA Replacement
- NYC Health & Hospitals Hacked; Affects at Least 1.8 Million
- Trump (Mobile) Can’t Catch a Break
Security News for the week ending May 22, 2026
This week’s news: active bomb found underwater attached to Mobile, AL’s water supply dam, Poland directs officials to ditch Signal for supposedly secure Polish alternative, America’s largest Bitcoin ATM operator files for bankruptcy, Congress wants answers; CISA wants to stop the bleed from Github creds leak and Ken Paxton (Texas AG) sues Meta over lying about WhatsApp privacy. Read the details here.
Read the May 24, 2026 issue (PDF)
Security News Update for May 31, 2026
- Ransomware Actors Show Up in Person to Steal Law Firm Data
- AI Reality – The Tools You Used Yesterday Won’t Protect You Tomorrow
- CNN Sues Perplexity AI Over Copyright
- GCHQ, The UK’s Version of NSA, is Using Agentic AI to Protect Critical Infrastructure
- CMMC Q&A
- Ubiquiti Patches Three Max Severity Vulnerabilities in their Firewalls
- Another 14 Year Old Linux Bug Discovered
- California Governor Signs EO Aiming to Soften AI Blow to Workers
- Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on This
- UK Private Visa Management Service Didn’t Protect Customer Data
- Charter Communications Breached – 42 Million Records Compromised
- Mike Lindell (MyPillow) has Something Else to Worry About Besides Million Dollar Lawsuits
Security News for the week ending May 29, 2026
This week’s news: Florida has a new law to force data centers to pay for utility costs, oops, someone sent 107 bitcoin to the shredder, what is good for the goose is …, as the prez cancels the AI EO, NIST begs companies to play with them and the FBI claims it recovered $8 billion in crypto; gangs achieve a similar goal differently. Details here.
Read the May 31, 2026 issue (PDF)
