Security News Update for November 2, 2025

This week’s news includes:

• Deepfakes – Rewriting the Rules of Geopolitics
• Senator Angus King Says Government Cyber Cuts Have Weakened US Cybersecurity
• CMMC Q&A
• Why Did the US Not Sign the UN Cybercrime Treaty
• Microsoft Allows Enterprise and Education Customers to Uninstall Crapware
• OpenAI Says Voice Authentication is as Secure as Leaving Your Front Door Unlocked
• Source of SonicWall Breach – Careless Engineer
• President Pardons Former Binance CEO
• US Sanctions Against Huawei Backfires
• China Mimicks US “Port Fee”, Raising Costs for Businesses and Consumers
• Russia Hacks Two Texas Electric Cooperatives
• Defense Contractor Insider Pleads Guilty to Stealing Zero-days Worth Millions
• Texas Stands up Cyber Command
• US Declines to Sign UN Cybercrime Treaty
• Your Smart Vacuum May be Spying on You
• Security News for the week ending October 31, 2025: Mondelez uses AI to reduce marketing content generation costs by 30-50%, politically correct Elon Musk says “if she is a 10, you are an asset”, US gov Cyber Talent Corps crashes under president’s watch, iRobot faces bankruptcy – turning smart vacuums into dumb ones and if Google is blocking 10 billion scam messages a month, how many are being sent.

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