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Tech Time Warp: The slide rule becomes obsolete
“150 Extra Engineers.” This 1952 IBM advertisement for the IBM Electronic Calculator is not dissimilar from today’s marketing for the latest artificial intelligence (AI) innovations: “An IBM Electronic Calculator speeds through thousands of intricate computations so quickly that on many...
Cloud success: The critical role MSPs play
After more than a decade of using cloud computing services, many organizations are still struggling to justify a return on investment (ROI). A survey of 350 senior IT leaders in the U.S finds that more than three-quarters (78 percent) admit finding it...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Cisco Unified CM backdoor account removal
Cisco removed a backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), tracked as CVE-2025-20309. This critical vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 10, enabled unauthorized remote access to unpatched...
Tech Time Warp: A eulogy for the Blue Screen of Death
The news that Microsoft will soon retire the infamous “Blue Screen of Death,” aka BSOD, in favor of an all-black “simplified UI for unexpected restarts” has inspired a wave of nostalgia for the screen every Windows user has learned to...
AWS sets higher standard for MSSP partners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is raising the bar for managed security services providers (MSSPs) by adding a range of specialized certification requirements. An update to the AWS MSSP Competency program introduces specific categories, including infrastructure security, workload security, application security,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Zero-day Chrome vulnerability
Google has patched a high-severity zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554 with a CVSS score of 8.1, in Chrome’s V8 engine that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. Review the details of this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory...
Should you be worried about copyr(AI)ght?
In previous articles, I’ve covered much of the good and evil around artificial intelligence (AI). An area that I haven’t covered is the impact of copyright on the use of AI. UK and EU tackle AI copyright In the UK,...
MSPs: Unmask 2025’s stealthiest email threats and fortify client defenses
Managed Services Providers (MSPs) stand on the front lines of cybersecurity, and with email-based attacks continuing to surge in volume and sophistication, your role in protecting clients has never been more critical. Email remains the primary conduit for most cyber...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Severe WebDAV vulnerability
Microsoft has disclosed a serious zero-day vulnerability in the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol, identified as CVE-2025-33053, with a CVSS score of 8.8. Actively exploited by the Stealth Falcon APT group, this vulnerability enables remote code execution (RCE)...
Close hidden security gaps with Barracuda Managed Vulnerability Security
We are excited to announce the launch of Barracuda Managed Vulnerability Security. This is a fully managed vulnerability scanning service that extends the BarracudaONE platform and is backed by Barracuda’s global, award-winning security operations center (SOC). Barracuda Managed Vulnerability Security scans for...
