Salt Typhoon, the CareCloud breach, Siemens PLC warnings - August 20, 2026

Chapters

1. 0:00

   Intro

2. 0:25

   T-Mobile cut a cable to evict Salt Typhoon

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/t-mobile-chopped-a-cable-to-expel-chinese-hackers-from-its-network/
3. 1:13

   CareCloud confirms three point seven five million patients breached

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/carecloud-confirms-3-7m-patients-had-their-medical-records-stolen-in-data-breach/
4. 2:01

   Seventeen charged over thirty-one terabytes of academic theft

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/20/us-iranian-hackers-mabna-institute-charged/
5. 2:50

   Five federal agencies warn on Siemens S seven controllers

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/20/usa-ai-attacks-siemens-s7-plcs-critical-infrastructure/
6. 3:40

   Expired contactless cards still authorize payments

   https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/20/zombie-credit-card-attack-expired/
7. 4:27

   OpenAI and Anthropic compete on keeping less of your data

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/openai-seeks-to-one-up-anthropic-with-new-customer-privacy-protections/
8. 5:15

   Researchers lose access to OpenAI's cyber program

   https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/researchers-complain-that-openai-revoked-their-access-to-limited-cyber-program/
9. 6:02

   Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter

   https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-is-joining-stripe/
10. 6:50

    A hardware-isolated sandbox for untrusted generated code

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/smolmachines-untrusted-sandbox/
11. 7:40

    Go one point twenty-seven adds generic methods

    https://go.dev/blog/go1.27
12. 8:29

    Sign-off