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Ask ChatGPT to summarize a webpage and it might phish you. An attacker can embed invisible instructions in any page that hijack how ChatGPT renders the summary. Your IP leaks. Fake login links appear. Welcome to 2026.
Attackers exploited FortiClient EMS to push a credential stealer disguised as a Fortinet firmware update. Your endpoint management system delivered the malware for them. You can't make this up.
An attacker exploited a Marimo notebook, let an LLM agent do the post-exploitation, and it dumped an entire PostgreSQL database in 4 pivots. This is the first documented LLM-agent intrusion in the wild.
Any user can get remote code execution on a Gogs server through a malicious branch name. The maintainer was told in March. It's still not fixed. There's a public exploit. Self-hosters, good luck.
The FBI is warning about it. 300+ phishing domains from one group alone. 170,000 stolen FIFA credentials already on the dark web. If you're buying World Cup tickets, read this first.
CISA just added this Palo Alto GlobalProtect vulnerability to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. If your VPN runs on PAN-OS, your remote workers might not be the only ones connecting.
An unauthenticated attacker can reach internal services and steal credentials through GitHub Enterprise Server. If GitHub can ship an SSRF, what's hiding in your infrastructure?
The biggest supply chain attack in npm history just happened. 160+ packages compromised. If you had auto-updates on, you swallowed the poison automatically. Here's what to do instead.
Gitea's container registry had a critical access control flaw that let anyone pull 'private' images without authentication. It went undetected for nearly four years. 30,000 deployments affected.
There's almost no actual hacking involved in most breaches. It's your people. Here's the 10-item checklist to fix that before somebody else does.
A single slash in the HTTP Host header bypasses authentication on FastAPI, vLLM, MCP servers, and basically every Python AI service. 325 million downloads per week affected.
380,000 AI-built apps deployed with zero security review. 45% of AI-generated code has OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. An AI social network leaked its entire database in 3 days. But sure, ship it.
82% of phishing emails are now AI-generated. Attackers probe networks at 36,000 scans per second. Dwell time is down to 5 days. The game changed and most small businesses didn't notice.
Three CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities in Ubiquiti UniFi OS. 100,000 exposed devices. No authentication required. If you run UniFi gear, patch right now.
A poisoned VS Code extension breached GitHub's internal repos. 3,800 repositories. 18 minutes. If you install extensions without thinking, you need to read this.
You don't need a six-figure security budget. These open source and free tools cover email authentication, endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, password management, and more. No excuses.
Step-by-step incident response for small businesses. What to disconnect, who to call, what to preserve, and what NOT to do. Print this out and tape it to the wall.
A crafted email is all it takes. Open it in Outlook Web Access and an attacker runs JavaScript in your browser. No patch yet. Here's what to do if you run Exchange on-prem.
1 in 5 small businesses that get hit with ransomware go bankrupt. 40% say an attack costing $100K would shut them down. The attacks are up 34% this year. Here's what to do.
You know you need to address security. You keep pushing it to next quarter. Here's exactly what that delay is costing you, in dollars, in risk, and in sleep.
Deepfake voice calls, AI-written phishing with perfect grammar, chatbot-powered social engineering. The scams just got a lot harder to spot. Here's how we train for them.
Palo Alto firewalls are being exploited for root-level code execution. SonicWall and Fortinet are getting hit too. 56% of compromised networks trace back to a firewall. The irony is painful.
41% of applications get denied on first submission. 73% of small businesses fail their assessments. 82% of denied claims had no MFA. Cyber insurance in 2026 has teeth.
30-40% of WordPress sites are running plugins with known vulnerabilities. A supply chain attack just backdoored 400,000 sites through trusted plugin updates. If you run WordPress, read this.
These aren't hypothetical. These are the attacks we're seeing in our assessments this quarter. If your team doesn't know about them, they're walking into a trap.
HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FTC Safeguards. If you run a small business in Chicago, at least one of these applies to you. Here's what matters and what doesn't.
A firewall and antivirus is not a security program. If you can't answer 5 basic questions about your security posture right now, you're running on luck. Luck is not a strategy.
CVSS 9.8. No authentication required. An attacker can impersonate any user in your Webex org, access meetings, files, and conversations. Here's what you need to know.
89% of security incidents start with a person getting tricked. Your $10,000 firewall can't fix that. But training your people like they're actually in the fight? That works.
That's not a scare tactic. That's Bureau of Labor Statistics data. If you don't have a security program, you're betting your business on luck. Here's why luck runs out.
You process credit cards, run a POS system, and have staff who've never heard of phishing. Attackers know this. Here's how to stop being easy money.
If your guest Wi-Fi and your POS system are on the same network, someone at table 6 with a laptop could reach your payment data. Here's how to fix your wireless security.
A real-world breakdown of how business email compromise works, why law firms are prime targets, and why the FBI says it's the most expensive cybercrime in America.
Donor records, client PII, financial data, volunteer info. Nonprofits hold the same sensitive data as any business but operate on a fraction of the budget. Here's how to protect it.
A meeting participant can execute code on your Zoom infrastructure. CVSS 9.9. If you self-host Zoom rooms or use on-prem Zoom infrastructure, this is an emergency.
IT support and cybersecurity are two different jobs. One keeps your email working. The other keeps your business alive. Most small businesses only have the first one.
Passwords get stolen, reused, guessed, and phished every day. If your business relies on passwords alone, you're running on borrowed time. Here's what actually works.