Cybersecurity Awareness Month Week 4 - Update Your SoftwarePatching Fun Stats:Microsoft set an all-time record in October 2026 by addressing 1,413 CVEs (including 3 zero-days and 75 critical vulnerabilities), following a previous record of 972 CVEs in September 2026. (Source: CrowdStrike)Microsoft released 4.5x more security patches year-over-year by July 2026, [...]
Rise of the latest scam, device code phishing has spiked 1,500% in the first half of 2026 compared to the second half of 2025, with some tracking reports noting a 37-times surge over a brief tracking period. [dark reading] By April 2026, Microsoft reported observing 10 to 15 new [...]
On Friday, the CISA sent out an announcement involving critical vulnerabilities in PHP that required immediate patching. You might not run PHP yourself, but that doesn’t mean you’re safe from PHP2Shell. Your SaaS provider might use PHP. Your hosting provider might manage PHP runtimes on your behalf. A third-party [...]
Expect to see quite a few websites serving error pages today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say there are working exploits for the flaws, and [...]
Cybersecurity Awareness Month Week 3 - Threat Surge of AI Powered Phishing AI Phish Facts: Click to view full screen 82.6% of phishing emails now contain AI-generated content, and AI-crafted attacks achieve click rates 4.5x higher than traditional phishing (KnowBe4 / academic research) 54% vs. 12% - [...]
Walk Complete! Team CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT Cancer Makes Strides Against Breast Cancer Yesterday, Team CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT Cancer proudly joined thousands of supporters at the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Point Pleasant, NJ! With more than 20,000 participants coming together for this incredible cause, Team BMT was excited to [...]
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say one of the executives in the [...]
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions. On October 8, the U.K. issued sanctions (PDF) [...]
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch batch dwarfs September’s record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly patch load from Redmond. Just one of the weaknesses patched [...]
Cybersecurity Awareness Month Week 2 - Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) MFA provides us with extra security by confirming our identities when logging in to our accounts, like entering a code texted to a phone or one generated by an authenticator app. MFA increases security—it can make us significantly safer online. [...]
Cyber attacks aren't just a concern for large corporations or IT professionals. Businesses of all sizes face increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats, and understanding how these attacks happen is one of the first steps toward protecting your organization. For business owners, managers, and professionals looking to strengthen their cybersecurity awareness, [...]
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The New York Times reported today [...]
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