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a weekly cybersecurity newsletter by journalist Zack Whittaker, plus exclusive articles, analysis, and much more.

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this week in security — august 16 2026 edition

U.S. government to allow private companies to launch cyberattacks, Taiwan hit by AI-driven hack, Flock admits it flucked up, new Windows zero-day, Wi-Fi spoofing incident on Delta plane, a North Korean in the U.S. government, and more.

this week in security — august 9 2026 edition

Hackers descend on Las Vegas, U.S. water system hacks are spreading, Samsung bans resproxy apps, offline hardware wallet hacked and crypto stolen, inside a Chinese police surveillance dashboard, AI notetaker app exposed calls, and more.

this week in security — august 2 2026 edition

Iran accused of U.S. water hacks, Anthropic admits its AI also hacked others, front-line defenders describe few AI threats, bug exposes data centers to compromise, hacked advertiser served malware, U.S. ban on foreign-made robots, and more.

this week in security — july 26 2026 edition

OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face, flawed alarm exposes millions of cars to hacks, healthcare software maker breached, Russia exploiting email zero-day, residential proxy crackdown, Iran hacking water and energy systems, and more.

this week in security — july 19 2026 edition

U.S. police buying vans with spy tech, Scattered Spider hackers jailed, Russia called out on European cyberattacks, Iran tapped phone networks to track U.S. troops, WordPress bugs under attack, fitness bands are a privacy hot mess, and more.

this week in security — july 12 2026 edition

Insurance groups stress-test U.S. response to China attack, EU Parliament calls for spyware probe, Accenture hack, lessons learned after CISA's password lapse, London transit hacker faces jail, Flock cameras flag car reviewer, and more.

this week in security — july 5 2026 edition

Supreme Court rules on geofence warrants, Oracle customers hacked (again), DHS confirms intel-sharing breach, six ISPs had email logins stolen, Apple bug exposes private emails, politician probing spyware hacked with Pegasus, and more.

this week in security — june 21 2026 edition

Anthropic's ban wasn't really about an AI jailbreak, hackers target Fortinet firewalls in latest mass hack, Ozempic maker hacked twice, members of elite secret society exposed, spy agencies buying more people's bulk location data, and more.

this week in security — june 14 2026 edition

ShinyHunters breach 100+ companies with new Oracle zero-day, FISA spy law lapses, Flock's flucked-up week, FCC wants to kill burner phones, dozens of Microsoft's open source tools hacked, NSO spying on WhatsApp users, and more.

this week in security — june 7 2026 edition

Thousands of Instagram users hacked by abusing Meta's AI chatbot, hackers stole Dashlane password vaults, Ultrahuman ring maker breached, a surge in ClickFix attacks, a CIA officer allegedly stole $40 million in gold bars, and more.