Security News Update for Feb 15, 2026

This week’s news includes:

• Discord Follows Others in Age Verification as States and Countries Zero In on Age
• 149 Million Passwords Left Unencrypted and Unprotected
• AI Alerts
• CMMC Q&A
• NSA Publishes New Zero Trust Implementation Guides
• 900,000 WordPress Sites At Risk
• Microsoft Patches 6 Exploited Zero-Day Fixes
• White House Trying to Extend FISA Section 702 Spying Law Due to Expire
• In 10 Days Facebook Will Have 3 Hours to Take Down Illegal Content…In India
• Which Countries Plan to Ban Social Media for Kids
• COIT Cleans Your Carpets and AKIRA Cleans COIT’s Data
• China is rehearsing cyber attacks-exposed
• Supremes agree to test geofence warrants
• Poland’s energy sector incident is a warning
• Security News for the week ending February 13, 2026: are Chinese products & services a threat or bargaining chip, Microsoft begins a secure boot security update for Windows, Ring and Flock – a VERY short partnership, maybe this is a way to power AI datacenters and China demonstrated extracting uranium from seawater.

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