Security News Update for October 4, 2026
- Humans Are Reading Your AI Prompts and are Horrified
- AI Pricing – Clear as Mud
- As Pressure Builds on AI’s Actions, People are Speaking Out and FTC Investigates
- CMMC Q&A
- Nvidia Releases “Open Agent Safety Platform”
- Payment Scams Now Showing Up at Meeting Invites
- FBI Sort of Admits That the ShinyHunters Hack is Real
- Month’s Long Breach at Pentagon Announced
Security News for the week ending October 02, 2026
This week’s news: millions of California cars can be hacked by bluetooth, Apple and AT&T say some iPhone 18 Pro Max phones need to be physically replaced, bipartisan backlash to license plate readers, Chinese open-weight models catching up to US and AI hallucinates even in court. Learn more here.
Read the October 4, 2026 issue (PDF)
Security News Update for October 11, 2026
- Judge Says Warrantless Flock Search Unconstitutional; Throws Out Evidence Found
- President’s AI Task Force Faces Expertise and Partnership Challenges
- President’s Desire to Rename AI to SI has a Few Hidden Landmines
- Shocker: Newsom Pokes Trump in the Eye (Figuratively)
- Art Imitates Life
- CMMC Q&A
- Bankers Sue Feds Over Crypto Banks
- State Financial Regulators Release AI Supervisory Framework
- Trump Mobile Hacked – Apparently More Than Once
- Bored Teen Hacked Microsoft Database with 17 Trillion Rows
- Georgia Power and Alabama Power Data Breach – 400,000 Victims
Security News for the week ending October 9, 2026
This week’s news: Senate passes bipartisan healthcare cybersecurity bill but will it become law, FBI finds scapegoat for breach, AI could crack crypto wallets before quantum computing, AI / data center IPOs are not doing so well this year and Anthropic offers Free AI security scans to open-source maintainers. Learn more here.
Read the October 11, 2026 issue (PDF)
Security News Update for October 18, 2026
- OKAY, This is Getting Out of Hand
- $86 Million + Stolen From Crypto Hardware Wallets With Backdoors
- OH, Crap (or some other word). AI Agents Navigate Unfamiliar OT Systems in 16 Minutes
- Accenture is Telling Employees That their AI Budget is $29 a Month
- This Should Concern You – B of A Hired 1,000 Contractors to Fix the Bugs AI Found
- CMMC Q&A
- 11th Circuit Says Georgia Can Force Everyone to ID Themselves to Access Social Media
- Export Controlled Data and Cyber Incident Response
- Russia Has Built Drones to Cut Through Electric Power Towers to Cause Blackouts
- More Cyber-Physical Attacks
Security News for the week ending October 16, 2026
This week’s news: Let’s Encrypt leads in reducing TLS certificate lifetime, Flock Surveillance network is bigger than they admit, Chinese semiconductor exports dwarf US semi exports, ransomware hackers have a new technique to ensure payment and it is scary and White House threatened tech giants with H1-B suspension. Read the details here.
Read the October 18, 2026 issue (PDF)
