Security News Update for August 17, 2025
This week’s news includes:
- DEF CON Volunteers Help Protect Water Sector From China and Iran
- FAR Council Releases Changes to 6 Sections of the Federal Acquisition Regulations
- CMMC Q&A
- CISA and Partners Release Guide to OT Asset Inventory
- Claude AI (Anthropic) to Get 1 Million Token Capability
- CISA Releases 32 Industrial Control Systems Advisories
- Meta Lets its AI Run Wild
- FedRAMP Approvals are Through the Roof
- Appeals Court Upholds FCC’s Data Breach Reporting Rule for Telecoms
- Embargo Ransomware: A Deep Dive
- Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters’ Next Move
- Manpower Staffing Franchisee Discloses Breach AFTER Data Posted Publicly
- PA AG Says Cyberattack Knocked Phones, Email Offline
- DaVita Admits that Medical Records of 900,000 Veterans Exposed in April Breach
- How Much is an FBI’s Email Account Access Worth?
- Red teams break GPT-5 – nearly unusable
- FDA’s use of AI to fast-track drug approvals is a belly flop
- Early Warning Services (Zelle) sued over lack of early (or any) warnings
- Security News for the week ending August 15th, 2025 – Qubic claims to control Monero mining, China and US battle over sale, safety of AI chips, hackers breach and expose North Korea spy operations, Russian hackers took control of a dam in Norway, opened floodgates and hackers sell keys to enterprise networks