Security News Update for February 1, 2026

This week’s news includes:

• Fortinet Confirms New Zero-Day Behind Malicious SSO Logins
• Can I Copyright AI Works
• IT Teams Are Not Equipped to Stop Rogue AI Agents
• Will AI Cause Unprecedented Damage This Year?
• How much should defense contractors expect to spend on IT, including security, as a percentage of REVENUE, not profit?
•  My customer tells me to treat paper drawings (or computer files) that were created 25 years ago as if they are CUI.  How do I deal with that?
• One of my cloud providers says that they are Fedramp 20x compliant.  Am I good to go?
• How many companies have achieved CMMC Level 2 third party certification?
• How should we deal with joint ventures under CMMC?
• Ever Heard of a Software Tool Called Visio?  No, Not THAT Visio!
• If You Think Your Cybersecurity Requirements Are Hard, Consider Israel’s
• Chinese Laundered $16 Billion of Illicit Crypto in 2025 Alone
• Nike Hackers “Just Did It”
• Treasury Cancels Booz Contracts in Symbolic Move – Due to Inadequate Security
• AI Bot Swarms Threaten Democracy
• Could we have, maybe, too much AI?
• Personal AI agent creates security nightmare
• Security News for the week ending January 30, 2026: China’s second in command accused of leaking nuclear secrets to US, tech industry lobbied; now it has to live with the result, DoJ continues to charge ATM jackpotting suspects, 13 years later-cyber warning ignored being exploited and because that is where the money is-$158 billion last year.

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