One Stolen Employee Login Opened Meta’s GitHub Repositories: Questions and Answers on What Was Taken
Meta has confirmed that hackers got into part of its code-hosting setup on GitHub, and the cause was not an...
Month: October 2026
Palo Alto Firewalls Face an Exploited Zero-Day in the Management Interface: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What to Do Today
Firewalls are supposed to be the part of the network nobody has to worry about. This week, Palo Alto Networks...
Ransomware Gangs Are Making It Personal: More Than a Third of Attacks Now Include Threats Against Staff
Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When Extortion Moves From Your Servers to Your PeopleRansomware used to be about locked...
14 Charged, 187 Computers Seized in Texas ‘Laptop Farm’ Crackdown on North Korean Remote Workers: The Briefing
The Justice Department on Tuesday announced its latest move against North Korea’s remote IT worker scheme, in which workers abroad...
Microsoft’s Record 1,400-Flaw Patch Tuesday at a Glance, Plus a Checklist for Small IT Teams
Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday is the biggest it has ever shipped, and it lands on teams that were still digesting...
A Hidden Recorder Behind the Boardroom TV: Why the OpenAI Bugging Case Is an Insider-Risk Lesson for Every Company
Most security stories this week are about software flaws. This one is about a television. Federal prosecutors have charged an...
From Japanese Scam Texts to a Court-Ordered Takedown: A Timeline of Microsoft’s Strike on Three Phishing Platforms
The fake “your package is delayed” or “unpaid toll” text rarely comes from a lone scammer. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced...
Attackers Are Breaking Into Fully Patched Ivanti VPNs: What Connect Secure Customers Are Asking
If your staff connect to the office through an Ivanti Connect Secure VPN, this is the week to check on...
Nearly a Third of Monitored Companies Got a Fake ‘IT Support’ Contact on Microsoft Teams
Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When the Help Desk Isn’t Really the Help DeskA message pops up in Microsoft...
Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Giant and Food Lion Sites Go Dark After a Network Security Issue: The Briefing
The short versionAhold Delhaize, the Netherlands-based parent of five U.S. grocery chains, says it is dealing with a “security issue”...
