cybersecurity

Professional credentials still matter — but the rules have changed: certifications are now strategic signals that must be paired with demonstrable work, up‑to‑date hands‑on experience, and a clear alignment to the technologies employers actually use. That’s the central takeaway from a compact...

A wave of tech‑support fraud that weaponized paid Bing search ads and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage burst into view in early February, converting routine web searches into convincing “Azure Support” scare pages and phone scams that hit at least 48 U.S. organizations across healthcare...

Sophos’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) uncovered a deceptively simple but operationally dangerous pattern: widely distributed Windows virtual machine templates shipped by a mainstream hosting control panel embed static NetBIOS hostnames, certificate subjects, and other system identifiers, producing...

CISA’s latest KEV update elevates four distinct and high-impact vulnerabilities—two in Sangoma FreePBX, one in GitLab, and one in SolarWinds Web Help Desk—into the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, signaling credible evidence of active exploitation and forcing an operational...

Avation Light Engine Pro has been flagged by a U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advisory as exposing its entire configuration and control interface without any authentication, a design failure that CISA scores as critical (CVSS v3.1 — 9.8) and traces to CWE‑306...

Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) Barcelona 2026 is shaping up to be the year professional AV (ProAV) stops being “just a screen and a projector” and starts to function as a distributed intelligence layer for buildings, meetings, retail and public spaces—driven by a convergence of edge AI...

Almost nine in ten large organisations that are exposed to actively exploited vulnerabilities leave those weaknesses unpatched for six months or longer, according to fresh industry analysis that should alarm CISOs, boards, and cyber insurers alike. Background The headline figure—almost 9 in 10...

Microsoft has quietly but deliberately set a firm deadline to end a decades‑long compatibility compromise: RC4 (RC4‑HMAC) will no longer be the assumed, permissive fallback for Kerberos ticket encryption on Windows domain controllers, and Microsoft has delivered a staged rollout tied to...

CISA’s decision to add five distinct vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on January 26, 2026, is a clear operational red flag: the agency has determined there is evidence of active or credible exploitation, and those entries now carry mandatory remediation weight...

A critical weakness in Microsoft Copilot Personal allowed attackers to turn a single, legitimate click into a stealthy exfiltration channel that could siphon profile attributes, file summaries and conversational memory — a chained prompt‑injection attack Varonis Threat Labs labeled “Reprompt”...

Hubtel IT’s recent hiring push — three targeted appointments that expand the team by a quarter — is more than a local personnel story: it’s a concise case study of how smallall, Microsoft‑centric IT consultancies are repositioning around AI-driven services, Copilot integration and heightened...

Hubtel IT’s decision to expand headcount by 25% and set an ambitious turnover target of more than £2.5 million for 2026 marks a deliberate pivot by a regional managed‑services firm to build commercial value around artificial intelligence and cybersecurity while consciously balancing human-led...

Central Bucks School District’s plan to embed AI literacy into classroom instruction lands at a moment of sharp contrast: districts across the country are moving quickly to teach students how to use and evaluate artificial intelligence, even as security researchers expose new ways those same AI...

A new, deceptively simple attack named “Reprompt” has exposed a critical weakness in Microsoft Copilot Personal: with a single click on a legitimate Copilot deep link an attacker could, under the right conditions, mount a multistage, stealthy data‑exfiltration chain that pulls names, locations...

If you use Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure services, SQL Server, or Microsoft developer tools, treat the latest advisories as urgent: India’s national cyber‑security agency CERT‑In has flagged multiple high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities and Microsoft has issued January 2026 security...

Microsoft’s formal end-of-support for Windows 10 has turned what was already a long-running upgrade debate into a moment of real urgency — and a flurry of steep Windows 11 Pro discounts and third‑party “lifetime” license offers has followed, pitching sub‑$10 keys as a low‑cost bulletproofing...

When Microsoft set a hard end-of-support date for mainstream Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, many IT teams reacted as if every Windows 10 machine suddenly became a ticking cybersecurity time bomb—but for operational technology (OT) environments the reality has always been more nuanced, and the...

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to build a cloud‑native, AI‑enabled unified data platform intended to accelerate transmission planning, improve real‑time situational awareness, and help the Midwest grid absorb surging...

The calendar year 2025 did more than accelerate an already fast-moving technology trend — it ruptured assumptions about how artificial intelligence would enter the critical infrastructure of economies, politics, work and security, and forced a new question to the foreground: what does practical...

Yogi Schulz’s Top‑10 reflections on information technology in 2025 crystallize a simple but profound idea: AI moved from a feature to an infrastructure layer that reshaped procurement, power planning, cybersecurity, and day‑to‑day operations across the energy industry. Background / Overview 2025...