/Weekly Cyber Security News 20/08/2026

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break!

 

Got’a catch them crims…

• Pokmon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders

Seen many papers on this wifi technique over the years, and now we have products making it to market:

• Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector

Backups… A lesson on having critical data held in more than one location – even if it is a lot of data:

• PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider