Year: 2026

Article Summary: Most small-business websites run on WordPress, and the biggest risk is usually old plugins that nobody has updated. Attackers scan the web for these known weak spots and use the sites they find to spread malware, post spam, or steal what visitors type into forms. Keeping the site and its plugins updated, and […]

Executive Summary Over roughly eight months, security researchers documented the first confirmed cases of malware using mainstream, commercial AI chatbot platforms as functioning parts of an attack — not just as writing assistants for phishing emails, but as live infrastructure. One backdoor hid its command-and-control traffic inside OpenAI’s Assistants API. Another queried a Hugging Face-hosted […]

Article Summary: Most IT problems don’t appear out of nowhere. Backups quietly stop running, updates sit unfinished for weeks, and old staff accounts stay switched on for months. A short check once a month catches these while they’re still cheap to fix. This post covers the six things to look at. Most owners only look […]

Article Summary: If your business uses Microsoft 365, you have both OneDrive and SharePoint, and files usually end up scattered across them with no clear rule. OneDrive is for your own work, and SharePoint is for files the team shares. Getting this right makes files easier to find, safer when someone leaves, and easier to […]

Article Summary: The tools that run your business, like Microsoft 365, your accounting app, or your booking system, are reliable most of the time, but they do go down. When one does, work can stop for hours, and you often can’t do anything but wait for the provider to fix it. A simple plan keeps […]

How a silent Linux kernel flaw lets any local user become root — and why your file-integrity monitoring won’t catch it Executive Summary A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, dubbed “DirtyClone” and tracked as CVE-2026-43503, lets a regular, unprivileged local user silently gain full administrative (root) control of a system — without leaving the usual […]

A public proof-of-concept now makes root access trivial on nearly every major Linux distribution Security researchers at Nebula Security’s VEGA team disclosed “GhostLock,” a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-43499, on July 7, 2026. The flaw has existed in the Linux kernel since 2011 — fifteen years — and affects virtually every major […]

AssuranceAmerica, a non-standard auto insurer based in Atlanta, Georgia, has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 7 million people. The intrusion began with a single compromised employee credential and gave an attacker access to driver’s license numbers, policy and account data, claims records, and, for a subset of customers, Social Security and Tax ID numbers. […]

Article Summary: Windows 10 reached the end of Microsoft support on October 14, 2025, which means it no longer gets security updates. The computers still work, but any new flaw found in Windows 10 will never be fixed, which makes them easier to attack and can cause problems with compliance and cyber insurance. You have […]

Article Summary: A passkey lets you sign in to an app or website using the same fingerprint, face, or PIN you use to unlock your phone or laptop, with no password to type. It’s built on a security standard called FIDO that can’t be phished, because the passkey only works on the real site and […]