Business

Article Summary: Email spoofing is when a scammer sends a message that appears to come from your domain, often to trick your clients or staff into paying a fake invoice or changing banking details. Three DNS records (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) prove that a message really came from you and tell receiving mail servers to […]

Article Summary: If your business is hit by a cyberattack, the first hour matters. Disconnect the affected devices from the network instead of powering them off, call your IT provider by phone, and leave the evidence in place. If money was wired to a scammer, call your bank right away. This post is the step-by-step […]

Article Summary: AI note-takers join your meetings, transcribe everything said, and save the recording and summary to the vendor’s servers. Who can see that recording depends on the tool. Some keep your data inside your own Microsoft or Google environment and never use it for training, while others store it on their own servers and […]

What Happened our firewall sits at the edge of your network. It inspects every packet. It sees everything that comes in and everything that goes out. And for months, Russian-speaking hackers have been using exactly that privileged position to silently steal 110 million credentials from over 430,000 Fortinet FortiGate firewalls around the world. The campaign, […]

AT A GLANCE What Is CVE-2026-20253 and What Happened? On June 10, 2026, Cisco-owned Splunk disclosed CVE-2026-20253 — a critical vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, the world’s most widely deployed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform. The flaw earned a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10 — the highest possible for network-exploitable vulnerabilities — […]

What Happened A video file should not be able to hack your server. And yet, as of June 22, 2026, it can. Security researchers at JFrog published details of CVE-2026-8461 — a critical vulnerability they named PixelSmash — affecting FFmpeg’s MagicYUV video decoder. FFmpeg is the world’s most widely deployed media processing framework. It is […]

What Happened On June 16, 2026, Apple quietly released Beats Firmware Update 1B211 — a security patch for its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds. The update addresses a high-severity vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker sitting nearby to listen through the earbuds’ microphone without ever pairing with the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20701, […]

Active Threat: On June 18, 2026, ShinyHunters announced a major expansion of its leak infrastructure — adding mirrors, torrent networks, and a permanent hosting pledge. This is not a hypothetical risk. Over 109 confirmed victims across 14 countries in the last 12 months alone. What Happened They’ve been active since 2019. They’ve survived arrests, FBI […]

Article Summary: Most ransomware operations target small businesses at volume, running through dozens of prospects per month. A 22-person company can be researched in 40 minutes using public records, attacked using session-token theft after a single phishing click, and ransomed within a week. What follows is a step-by-step walkthrough of how that attack unfolds, written […]

Article Summary: Microsoft has tightened several Microsoft 365 defaults over the past few years, but those changes do not always apply retroactively. Tenants set up before 2022, or configured by a previous IT provider and left alone since, often still have legacy settings in place around file sharing, external email forwarding, third-party app consent, audit […]