Fortinet observed P2Pinfect infections inside GKE clusters where exposed Redis instances became long-lived botnet footholds. For SMBs and government contractors, the lesson is clear: cloud misconfiguration, runtime visibility, and egress monitoring matter as much as patching.
Verizon’s 2026 DBIR shows vulnerability exploitation overtaking credential abuse as the top breach access vector. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should fix first.
Microsoft disrupted Fox Tempest, a malware-signing-as-a-service operation that helped ransomware crews make malicious binaries look trusted. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should review now.
A reported CISA contractor GitHub leak shows why secret scanning, token rotation, and CI/CD hardening need to be enforced controls, not optional developer hygiene.
Microsoft’s Storm-2949 case study is a clean warning for SMBs and government contractors: once cloud identity and control-plane access are compromised, attackers can steal data without deploying traditional malware.
AI agents now operate with real credentials inside business systems. Here is how SMBs and government contractors should govern identity, authority, action, and evidence before agentic workflows become unmanaged risk.
CERT/CC disclosed three SGLang vulnerabilities affecting AI inference deployments, including remote code execution and path traversal risks. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should do now.
Grafana disclosed unauthorized GitHub access tied to a leaked token and codebase download. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should tighten around source-code access, CI/CD tokens, and extortion readiness.
Albert LaScola reflects on teaching database systems, governance, risk management, and AI literacy through a fundamentals-first approach shaped by Navy operations, security work, Bulwark Black, and Rural Tech and Support.
Malicious node-ipc npm releases turned a package update into a credential-exposure event. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should check first.
