The Week in Five: five security stories, and what to ask your team

Five stories from the security week, explained for people who do not work in security. What happened, what it costs you, what control was missing, and one question you can forward to your own team. Security week of 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-30. Chapters 0:00 The price of a missing control 0:40 The Shared Floor 1:43 The Print Server 2:57 The Voice On The Phone 4:05 Seven Hundred Of Them 5:25 The Week Before The Plug 6:43 The five questions Sources One Tenant, The Whole Server (2026-08-27) https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cri... Exploited Before There Was A Fix (2026-08-28) https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/pap... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news... https://www.securityweek.com/papercut... The Help Desk Was The Front Door (2026-08-28) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news... They Found Each Other First (2026-08-27) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news... Seven Days Between Report And Plug (2026-08-28) https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ber... https://www.guardianmssp.com/2026/08/... https://threatnoir.com/article/berlin... Framing anchor, correctly dated to January 2026 https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/data-... https://www.cnil.fr/en/data-breach-5m... The five questions in this episode are also the week's questions on QuizNoir: https://quiz.threatnoir.com More at https://threatnoir.com AI-assisted script and synthetic narration. Editor reviewed. Every figure on screen traces to a source listed above.