Heartbeat 26.08

What’s New From Us

1. Launch of Penetration Testing Services,
2. Launch of Securitybeat Certified
3. Free Security Awareness Newsletter Service for Clients and Partners to be published every 2 weeks. 
4. Past newsletters archived to Securitybeat Advisors Blog.

Newsworthy Posts

1. Vulnerability Management Tipping Point
2. Microsoft Copilot Personal Hacking Assistant
3. Cato Networks Named SASE Leader
4. What are our lessons of CMMC compliance?
5. Massive Breach at Leviton
6. Another Misdeed by OpenAI
7. Will Security Word Salad Confuse AI?
8. Cyber Militia Called Into Action
9. Malicious Trivy Build Root to Supply Chain Attack
10. Three 0-Days Top Microsoft Update
11. Faster Doesn’t Mean Better
12. Spyware the Apple of My Eye

Partner Perspective

1. Coyote Brown / Cyber Buyer
   1. Top security news for the past 2 weeks:
      • Data Breaches
        • US Water Cyberattacks Extend Beyond Minnesota to at Least 6 Other States
        • Levi Strauss says hackers breached employee computers, accessed corporate data
        • Delta Air Lines Flight Wifi Hacked Post DEFCON Conference in Las Vegas
        • Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack
      • Ransomware
        • Ransomware Surges in July After Q2 Lull
        • Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service
        • Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
        • Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get code names
      • AI Security
        • Meta, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI to meet Trump officials about AI safety testing
        • Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company
        • 2,500+ Companies and 434,000 CI/CD Pipelines Exposed in the Largest AI Supply Chain Breach of 2026
        • Hackers reportedly used AI agents to breach Government Target
      • Governance – GRC
        • Significant risk’: AI expert calls for legislation to address security breaches
        • State Cybersecurity Laws: How to Meet the Rising Standard for Reasonable Security
        • Reddit Hit With $20 Million UK Data Privacy Fine Over Child Safety Failings
        • US government will let private companies hack criminal gangs
   2. New vendors : LASSO, ProCap360, NecessityWorks, Elrezar
2. The Privacy Professor
   • Tips of the Month – May 2026, June 2026, July 2026, August 2026