Month: February 2026
Mastering AI fluency: The new imperative for MSP cyber resilience
The cybersecurity landscape isn’t just shifting; it’s being fundamentally rewritten. Artificial intelligence (AI) – specifically generative and agentic AI – has lowered the entry barrier for cybercriminals, allowing them to launch attacks with unprecedented speed, scale, and sophistication. For MSPs,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines zero-day
Security researchers from Google Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have identified active exploitation of a maximum‑severity zero‑day vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (RP4VM) by a suspected China‑nexus threat cluster tracked as UNC6201. Read this Cybersecurity...
Tech Time Warp: The fascinating world of phone phreaks
“If we hadn’t made those blue boxes, there would be no Apple.” This quote from Steve Wozniak is an intriguing teaser into the fascinating world of phone phreaks—the hackers of the late 1960s and 1970s, who managed to place calls...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Chrome zero‑day exploit
Google has released emergency security updates for Chrome to fix CVE‑2026‑2441, a high‑severity zero‑day vulnerability in the browser’s CSS engine that attackers are already exploiting. The flaw is a use‑after‑free memory issue that allows a malicious or compromised website to...
Survey: IT teams relying on third-party expertise for agentic AI
A survey of 625 IT professionals with cloud computing expertise finds that well over two thirds (69 percent) plan to source agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities through IT or consulting service providers—second only to agentic AI platform vendors, which came...
How MSPs build digital credibility and get found in AI search: 7 strategies
Key takeaways Your prospects use AI to research and vet IT providers Highlight certifications and partnerships Keep messaging consistent across every channel Do buyers know you exist? AI search is delivering the rep-free experience 75 percent of buyers told Gartner...
Small business, big risk: The message MSPs must share
Many small businesses still assume their size protects them. A seven‑person accounting firm might reason that they’re nothing like a giant such as PricewaterhouseCoopers—and therefore not worth a hacker’s time. But experts say this mindset is dangerously outdated. The myth...
The new face of phishing: Why traditional defenses are failing your customers in 2026
As we navigate the start of 2026, the cybersecurity landscape has reached a critical inflection point. For managed services providers (MSPs), the challenge is no longer just identifying “the bad guys;” it’s identifying the “perfectly simulated guys.” In 2025, phishing...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: ZeroDayRAT enables takeover on Android & iOS
A new commercial mobile spyware platform, ZeroDayRAT, is being promoted to cybercriminals on Telegram as a tool that provides full remote control of compromised Android and iOS devices. Researchers at mobile threat hunting company iVerify describe it as a “complete...
Pioneers in Tech: Frederick McKinley Jones, inventor of mobile refrigeration
We can thank inventor Frederick McKinley Jones, for the proliferation of food choices we enjoy on a daily basis. The modern grocery store—which houses tropical fruits, exotic imported cheese, and frozen sushi-grade fish—was first made possible by Jones’ 1941 invention,...
