Category: Featured
Pioneers in Tech: Remembering Dado Banatao, designer of the first PC chipset
You probably haven’t thought about your chipset lately—but if you were missing it, you would notice. Dado Banatao, who was born in 1946 in a Filipino farming village that lacked electricity, was the designer behind the first PC chipset. (For...
The smart devices putting SMBs at risk
In 2026, an office is a web of connected devices. The office aquarium. The smart thermostat in the corner. The IP camera above the reception desk. The networked printer down the hall. Most people do not view these devices as...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: TrustSink attack targets Microsoft Entra ID
TrustSink is an attack technique that abuses Microsoft Entra ID’s federated trust model. It uses a rogue MFA provider to intercept user credentials during legitimate login attempts. The attack captures plaintext passwords in real time without the user’s knowledge. Attackers...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities
Attackers are actively exploiting two critical vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Citrix confirmed the vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, on September 27. Both flaws enable remote code execution, and attackers have used them to deploy web shells and...
Tech Time Warp: How Mirai turned insecure IoT devices into a powerful botnet
Ten years ago, the tech world was abuzz with possibilities for the “Internet of Things” (IoT) — including bad actors. A hacker’s frustration sparks a bigger scheme In this case, the bad actors were a trio of college-age hackers whose...
Will AI recommend your MSP to buyers?
Key takeaways Your prospects ask AI for a list of MSPs before they ever search Google or visit a provider’s website. They describe their company, IT environment, security concerns, industry requirements, and location, then ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity which...
How MSPs can use AI to build better prospecting lists
AI can help with MSP sales prospecting, but I wouldn’t spend ten minutes asking an LLM to research every company before making a call. Instead, use AI to remove the administrative work that slows prospecting: cleaning lists, extracting data from...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Ransomware exploits Confluence servers
Feral Wolf has targeted Russian organizations through exposed Confluence servers, insecure 1C configurations, and compromised contractors, ultimately deploying ransomware. The campaign exploited the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability CVE-2023-22515. What is the threat? Feral Wolf is a financially motivated ransomware group that...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: WordPress Click2Shell flaw enables RCE
Researchers have disclosed a WordPress exploit chain known as Click2Shell, which was addressed in WordPress 7.1.1 as part of a security release containing 11 fixes. When combined with vulnerabilities in affected themes, the attack can lead to remote code execution...
Tech Time Warp: Lessons learned from the Yahoo breaches of the early 2010s
Ten years ago, Yahoo announced a massive security breach—the largest of its time. Account information for 500 million Yahoo users had been stolen in a hybrid state-sponsored and criminal hacker attack. When cyber espionage reached Yahoo The details sound straight...
