Security News Update for October 5, 2025

This week’s news includes:

• HR Vendor Paycom Replaces Humans with AI – Fires 500 People
• An Unintentional Casualty of the Government Shutdown
• Ohio’s Harmful Website Age Verification Law Goes Into Effect
• Michigan Bill Would Block Use of VPNs With Up To $500,000 Fine
• CMMC News
• Creating and Maintaining a Definitive View of Your Operational Technology Architecture
• Georgia Tech Settles False Claims Act Lawsuit for $875,000
• FCC Chair Says He is Looking at Blocking State AI Safety Laws
• FBI Says it Found Classified documents in Bolton Search
• QAnon Shaman Pardoned by Prez, Sues Prez for $40 Trillion
• UK Seizes $7 Billion in Bitcoin After Chinese Scammer Pleads Guilty
• How Did Chinese Hackers Breach Global Critical Infrastructure?
• Jaguar Gets 1.5 Billion Pound Bailout From UK Government After Cyberattack
• Archer Health “We Don’t Need No Stinkin Passwords” Leaks 23 Gigabytes of Medical Records
• Crooks Claim They Stole Data From 28,000 Internal Red Hat Code Repositories
• Renault UK Says Customer Information Stolen From Third-party Vendor
• Hackers Who Stole Breached Salesforce Naming Victims
• Russia uses expendable hackers
• California enacts AI safety bill
• Is AI the newest “weak link” in the security chain?  Maybe!
• Security News for the week ending October 3, 2025: Flock surveillance camera network CEO says privacy is not his problem, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blocked bill to extend privacy protections that Congress critters have to all Americans, FCC agrees to move forward to allow cell phone jamming in (SC) prisons, DoJ and dHS lost their authority to mitigate drone threats, administration sued over $100,000 H-1B visa price tag.

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