Security News Update for February 8, 2026
This week’s news includes:
- Microsoft Has Deprecated NTLM; Will Remove it from New Server Builds in Next Release
- AI Alerts
- Roughly Half of Employees are Using UNSANCTIONED AI TOOLS
- CMMC Q&A
- Do we still need to do an 800-171 self assessment?
- I just got an RFP with DFARS 252.204-7997 in it but I can’t find it. What is that?
- What changed with the -21 FAR?
- When do the above changes go into effect?
- If we buy a company and they have a CMMC Level 2 certification, can we use it?
- Microsoft About to Roll Out SysMon Natively in Windows
- Chinese Government Hackers Inserted Targeted Malware into Notepad++ App
- Hackers Fail to Extort Panera Bread; Drop 5 Million Records
- Massive Chinese Data Breach – 8.7 BILLION Records
- Hackers Publish Data Stolen from U Penn and Harvard
- Data Breach at Tech Giant Conduent Balloons to Many Millions
- Congress made your car into big brother
- French police go after Twitter and Musk
- Do you know what an EDR killer is?
- Security News for the week ending February 6, 2026
- President’s pick for new NSA chief likes surveillance,
- what is your level of paranoia,
- DHS is trying to force big tech to hand over data about Trump critics,
- Step Finance says exec’s devices led to $40M crypto theft and
- Pentagon asked to probe SpaceX for potential Chinese ownership.