Security News Update for August 30, 2026

This week’s news includes:

• Cities Ditching Flock for ?Who? Verkada
• The News About Last Month’s Attacks on Water Systems Just Keeps Getting Worse
• OpenAI Says Jalapeno Beats Nvidia Blackwell
• Ukraine to Give Britain Access to Battlefield Data to Train AI
• Federal Judge Says DoD Anthropic Supply Chain Designation is Illegal
• When is Child Porn Legal?
• 130 Companies Warn of Risk of AI
• CMMC is a bit unsettled right now.
• ** REMINDER** NEW SPRS/PIEE System Access Requirements
• Ubiquiti in the Spotlight Again
• UK Gov Wants to be Able to Ban Risky Tech and Do So in Secret
• CISA Insights From Two “Red Team” Exercises
• Employee Benefits Platform Paylogix Hacked
• Workwear Retailer Carhartt Hacked; Loses Data on 12 Million
• Distributed Finance (DeFi) Protocol Moonwell Hit for $8.7 Million
• McKesson Discloses Breach of 284 Million
• Hackers shut down UK power plant for four days    
• Has OpenAI figured out how to stop hemorrhaging red ink?
• The CMMC pause: a compliance break, or a trust fall without a net?
• Security News for the week ending August 28, 2026: this is not a surprise – fingerprint security is not foolproof, Microsoft discloses Entra ID flaw, ServiceNow patches three max severity bugs, 130 companies warn of risk of AI and president say communities opposing data centers are making a mistake.

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