Security News Update for October 18, 2026

This week’s news includes:

• OKAY, This is Getting Out of Hand
• $86 Million + Stolen From Crypto Hardware Wallets With Backdoors
• OH, Crap (or some other word).  AI Agents Navigate Unfamiliar OT Systems in 16 Minutes
• Accenture is Telling Employees That their AI Budget is $29 a Month
• This Should Concern You – B of A Hired 1,000 Contractors to Fix the Bugs AI Found
• ** REMINDER** NEW SPRS/PIEE System Access Requirements
• 11th Circuit Says Georgia Can Force Everyone to ID Themselves to Access Social Media
• Export Controlled Data and Cyber Incident Response
• Russia Has Built Drones to Cut Through Electric Power Towers to Cause Blackouts
• More Cyber-Physical Attacks
• Ukraine figured out how to decimate bots      
• Flock is having a bad PR day
• What if the next attack isn’t to set refrigerators on fire?
• Security News for the week ending October 16, 2026: Let’s Encrypt leads in reducing TLS certificate lifetime, Flock Surveillance network is bigger than they admit, Chinese semiconductor exports dwarf US semi exports, ransomware hackers have a new technique to ensure payment and it is scary and White House threatened tech giants with H1-B suspension.

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