Washington Formally Shuts DeepSeek Out of Civilian Agencies: Reading the DHS Order Line by Line
A notice scheduled to appear in the Federal Register on Tuesday makes official something the government decided months ago: the...
Month: October 2026
A Paid SEO Plugin Shipped a Self-Healing Backdoor for 11 Hours: The Rank Math PRO Response Clock for WordPress Site Owners
Most WordPress owners are taught that the safe move is to keep plugins updated. This incident turns that advice on...
Microsoft Is Now the Disguise in One of Every Three Brand Phishing Attempts: Six Rings of Defense, From the Open Web to the Help Desk
Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When a Trusted Brand Is the DisguisePhishers dress their messages up as the companies...
A Weekend Cyber Incident Closes an Idaho School District on Monday: Where Things Stand, and Five Questions for Your Own Organization
Students in Jerome, Idaho, are home today, and it has nothing to do with the weather. The Jerome School District...
MITRE ATT&CK v20, Read Like Release Notes: New Entries on AI Abuse, MFA Workarounds and Attacks on Water Utilities
MITRE ATT&CK is the shared vocabulary security teams use to describe what attackers actually do once they go after a...
Leaked AI Keys and Surprise Bills: Three Scenarios for Teams After the OpenCode Console Breach
AI coding assistants have become everyday tools for developers, and many of them run on API keys that work like...
One Hacker, a Team of AI Agents and About $5,000: Who’s Who in the Spree That Broke Into More Than 100 Company Websites
For years, the limit on how many companies one criminal could attack was the criminal’s own time. A new report...
Outlook on the Web Failing or Mail Stuck in the Outbox? A Symptom Checker for Exchange Servers After October’s Windows Updates
If your company still runs its own Exchange server and people started complaining about email after Patch Tuesday, the server...
Fake Meeting Invites Are Phishing for Microsoft 365 Logins at Scale: Each Step of the Lure, Matched to a Defense
Here Is How Layered Defenses Help When a Calendar Invite Is the Phishing LureNobody thinks twice about a meeting invitation....
How One IT Provider’s Breach Became a $2.7 Million Penalty for a New York Pediatric Health Network
On Friday, the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut announced a $2.7 million settlement with Boston Children’s Health Physicians...
