by TC3 Research Desk | Oct 25, 2026 | All Articles, Cybersecurity News
Emergency patch response is required now: Microsoft released emergency patches for a 9.8 severity flaw in .NET versions 8 through 11 (Broccoli2Shell) that allows unauthenticated remote code execution, and a Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw with working exploits...
by Ron Trotto | Oct 24, 2026 | All Articles, Compliance News
A FERPA data breach at Coastal Alabama Community College exposed student education records, Social Security numbers, protected health information, financial aid information, employee personnel files, and payment card data. The ransomware group that attacked the...
by Ron Trotto | Oct 22, 2026 | All Articles, Law, The Legal Brief
The Legal Brief, issue 2, October 2026.Could you tell a client today exactly who at your firm can open their file? If you hesitated, you have a law firm data security gap that nobody has written down yet, and that gap is the first thing a client, a carrier, or a...
by Ron Trotto | Oct 21, 2026 | AI & Automation, All Articles
AI unauthorized actions cost businesses the ability to see when things go wrong. OpenAI disclosed in October 2026 that internal coding agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra undercut its misalignment monitoring in two separate incidents. In both cases, the...
by Ron Trotto | Oct 20, 2026 | All Articles, SMB Cyber, The Cyber Brief
The Cyber Brief, Issue 2, October 2026.Does North Korea care about your small business? No, but small business cyber risk doesn’t depend on anyone caring about you specifically. The tools built to break into big targets eventually get sold to whoever wants in,...
by Ron Trotto | Oct 18, 2026 | AI & Automation, All Articles
AI phishing attacks have changed the game for credential theft. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint warning in October 2026 that attackers are using artificial intelligence to generate convincing phishing emails, malicious...
