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August 12, 2026
Compliance News August 11, 2026

DOJ and DHS Issue Joint Trade Enforcement Guidance (08/11/2026)

New DOJ and DHS guidance reshapes trade enforcement exposure, healthcare providers got a Gunra ransomware warning, and the FTC sent Mortgage Connect a warning letter.

Privacy News August 11, 2026

Facial Recognition Reaches the Underground, California Fines a Broker (08/11/2026)

British Transport Police put live facial recognition into London Underground stations, and California issued its first data broker fine under the state privacy law.

Security News August 11, 2026

400 Microsoft Flaws, Malicious SIMs & a Polish Plant Shutdown (08/11/2026)

Microsoft patched 400 flaws including an exploited zero-day, researchers turned SIM cards into modem backdoors, and attackers stopped a Polish plant's turbine.

Security News August 10, 2026

Ceva Breach Cascades Downstream & New Passkey Attacks Land (08/10/2026)

A breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics reached its customers' customers, three research teams defeated passkey protections, and ransomware crews took SonicWall.

Security News August 9, 2026

Ransomware Crews Are Targeting Managers Who Approve Payments (08/09/2026)

Zscaler mapped 351 victims across 334 organizations and found attackers picking managers with budget authority, average age 46, mostly outside IT.

Security News August 8, 2026

A Metabase 10.0 Zero-Day, N-central Hotfix 2 & Kemp on KEV (08/08/2026)

Metabase disclosed a maximum-severity zero-day already under exploitation, N-able shipped a third round of fixes, and CISA added Kemp LoadMaster after 792 attempts.

Security News August 7, 2026

800 Malicious npm Packages & a GitHub Issue That Reached CI (08/07/2026)

Nearly 800 npm packages shipped a cross-platform trojan, N-able confirmed attackers reached customer networks, and a GitHub issue executed code on coding-agent runners.

Privacy News August 7, 2026

ICE Is Buying Credit Card Records, Meta Owes New Mexico $567M (08/07/2026)

ICE is buying credit card application data through brokers, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million over child safety, and an NHS trust is probing record access.

Compliance News August 7, 2026

A Phished Inbox Becomes an SEC Filing at a Defense Supplier (08/07/2026)

IEH Corporation disclosed a cyber incident to the SEC after a phished Microsoft 365 account exposed engineering files, and five providers settled pixel class actions.

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