Category: Featured
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apache ZooKeeper vulnerability
Recently, two important‑level severity vulnerabilities were identified in Apache ZooKeeper, a service widely used for configuration management and naming in distributed applications. These issues make timely security updates critical. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to access sensitive configuration data or...
Pioneers in Tech: Joan Clarke, Bletchley Park codebreaker
The stories of the women of Bletchley Park—the secret British codebreaking facility during World War II—are only now becoming known, much like those of the “hidden figures” of NASA. How women helped break the unbreakable Thousands of women worked at...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Malware campaign targeting HR workflows
A new malware campaign known as BlackSanta is actively targeting HR and recruitment personnel through realistic job‑related lures and weaponized documents. Once victims open malicious files, the malware deploys a highly capable EDR‑killer designed to disable endpoint protection before delivering...
Survey shows channel partners are seeking more vendor support
A survey of 400 technology channel partners suggests that the level of support they expect from IT vendors is shifting in an era marked by rapid innovation and economic uncertainty. Rising expectations for vendor support Conducted by the Futurum Group,...
What is AI search and why should MSPs care?
Key takeaways AI search generates direct answers instead of listing links. MSP visibility now depends on being summarized and cited, not just ranked. AI search builds on SEO but prioritizes clarity, structure, and consistency. MSP leaders who refine positioning and...
AI is making phishing smarter and MSPs need to keep up
The numbers are jarring: according to Barracuda Networks data, 91 percent of all cyberattacks begin with a phishing email, costing businesses billions of dollars annually. The goal of these attacks hasn’t changed since the mid‑1990s — trick someone into wiring...
How Managed XDR helps MSPs stay ahead of heightened cyber activity
Just before the start of the conflict in the Middle East, Barracuda Managed XDR’s global Security Operations Center (SOC) observed a sharp surge in cyber activity—specifically, a ten‑fold increase in malicious traffic coming from Iran and targeting the United States....
Tech Time Warp: It’s MyLife, the email worm of spring 2002
The year was 2002 when this week’s Tech Time Warp was born. Email and the internet were still enough of a novelty that unwitting computer users were duped by an email worm promising fun screensavers. In multiple variants claiming to...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Google security page spoofed in PWA attack
A phishing campaign is using a spoofed Google Account security page to distribute a malicious Progressive Web App (PWA). The app is designed to steal one‑time passcodes, collect cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and turn victims’ browsers into proxies for attacker traffic....
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: APT28 targets Windows and Office via MSHTML zero‑day
Multiple security researchers and Microsoft have confirmed that the threat actor APT28 (Fancy Bear / Forest Blizzard) actively exploited a zero‑day vulnerability in the Microsoft MSHTML framework (CVE‑2026‑21513) prior to its fix in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday release. Read...
