Security News Update for September 13, 2026
This week’s news includes:
- Microsoft’s Best Friend (or Worst Enemy) Released Another Defender 0-Day
- Anthropic is Working Hard to Keep Up With OpenAI
- OpenAI Promises to Spend $1 Billion on Protecting Critical Infrastructure (Sort of)
- The 60 Day Review Timeline is Over – Now What?
- How Does the FAR CUI Rule Affect CMMC?
- ** REMINDER** NEW SPRS/PIEE System Access Requirements
- Treasury to Help Financial Firms Transition to Quantum Resistant Encryption
- Router Maker MikroTik Patches Bugs Currently Being Exploited
- Musk’s xAI Fails to Block Minnesota Law Banning Nudification Apps
- Canada is Fast Tracking a Bill to Force US companies to Secretly Spy on Americans
- KIDS Act Passes the House; Odds Uncertain in the Senate
- EU’s Cyber Resilience Act Goes Into Effect – A Game of Cyber Chicken
- OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim
- Why the ‘Bigbear’ Phishing Attack Should be on Your Radar
- And the Winner is … Microsoft With 974+ Patches
- New State Cloud Rules Will Impact Vendors
- Security News for the week ending September 11, 2026: UK Online Safety Act has made “ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE”, kids say, Want to tell Zuck to ZuckOff – you can if you are an iPhone user, RAND says we could not replace satellites destroyed in case of a war, the government lacks the ability to verify AI companies’ claims and EU says Google must open up Gemini and search to competitors.
