Security News Update for August 31, 2025
This week’s news includes:
- Early Warning – CISA to Release Post Quantum Product List – If You Are Not On It, You Won’t be Able to Sell to the Feds
- UAE Based Startup Offers up to $20 Million For Zero Days
- AI LLMs Easily Exploited to Do Evil
- Foreign Mail Carriers Stop Accepting Shipments Bound for the US
- CMMC Q&A
- CNAPPs are the New Security Sheriffs in Town
- The Risk of Playing the Crypto Game
- Citrix Under Attack Again
- You Know Those Spam Texts Messages You Get? They Are About to be Illegal in Texas
- US Warns Tech Companies Against Complying With EU and UK Hate Speech Laws
- OOPS! Finnish Police Say Russia Told Captain to Destroy Evidence of Sabotaging Cables
- Insider Threat, Take Two
- A Detailed Guide to the Genius Act and Financial Crimes COMPLIANCE
- Farmers Insurance Announces it got Hacked
- Bitcoin Speculator Socially Engineered Out of $91 Million in Bitcoin
- Maryland and Nevada Announce Breaches That Took Down State Services
- Decentralized Finance Provider BetterBank Hacked
- Transunion Says Millions of Customer’s Data Stolen – Stored at Third Party
- Newest Software as a Service app – Impersonation as a Service
- Anthropic settling $1 trillion lawsuit
- AI. It’s here. To help you. Not. So. Much.
- Security News for the week ending August 29th, 2025: Musk sues Apple and OpenAI over favoring ChatGPT over his chatbot, whistleblower claims DOGE made unsecured copy of Social Security data, FBI says China’s Salt Typhoon hacked at least 200 US companies, ChatGPT sued over teen’s suicide-could be a problem for big tech and BlueSky goes dark in Mississippi over age verification