Security News Update for January 4, 2026

Welcome back; Hopefully 2026 will be a safer year.

This week’s news includes;

• Pornhub Extorted After Vendor Breach
• OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI Applications for 2026
• Nvidia Joins the Large Language Model for Real
• Law Firm Hagens Berman Sanctioned Over AI Hallucinations
• AI’s Elections Impact Likely to Grow in 2026
• New Texas AI Law Goes Into Effect January 1
• New York Governor Signs New AI Law
• AI-Cybersecurity Trends for 2026
• If someone sends us CUI in our commercial tenant can we just use something like Purview to “redirect” it to our GCC/GCCH  tenant?
• DLA publishes estimates of who is going to require which CMMC certs
• CISA Releases Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals Version 2.0
• Apple Patches More Zero-Days in ‘Sophisticated Attack’
• New York is the Most Recent State to Ignore President’s AI EO
• Almost 20 Million Affected by Two Breaches, But There Are Many More
• Aflac Confirms Breach Exposed Data on 22 Million Customers
• The State of Non-Human Identities
• Texas sues Smart TV makers
• Louisiana’s age verification law ruled unconstitutional
• Russian government actively managing cybercrime groups
• $339 Trillion Hack
• It is now 2026 – prediction time
• Security News for the week ending January 2, 2026: Russia hits critical infrastructure via network edge devices, Texas judge tells HiSense to stop collecting user data, another undersea cable cut, CISA loses key employee behind early cyber warnings and Senate Intel chair asks White House to address open source risk.

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