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It Took 72 Days to Notice a €1 Million Fraud
One clicked link. Three weeks of silent watching. Then a real invoice, followed by a fake one, and nobody caught the difference for over two months.
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8 Gigabytes of Client Data, No Password Required
A single misconfigured cloud database left client contracts, invoices, and staff emails open to anyone who found it. No hacking involved, just a setting…
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Your Headcount Doubled. Did Your IT Budget?
A new CrowdStrike survey of small and mid-size businesses shows most owners feel confident about cybersecurity right up until you ask whether their…
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The Cloud Bill Nobody Budgeted For
After five straight years of getting better at controlling cloud costs, businesses just lost ground — nearly a third of what they're spending on cloud…
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September 2026

The Password-Guessing Attack That Uncovered a Ransomware Supply Chain
A routine brute-force attempt against one exposed server turned out to be the tip of a much bigger business: criminals who break in, then sell the…
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The Breach Marriott Bought Without Knowing It
When Marriott acquired Starwood Hotels in 2016, it also acquired an attacker who had been sitting inside Starwood's reservation system for two years …
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The IT Admin Who Locked an Entire City Out of Its Own Network
One network engineer held the only passwords to San Francisco's government systems. When he refused to hand them over, the city found out exactly what…
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The VPN Backdoor Nobody Remembers Granting
A 2024 industry survey found that most organizations are still handing out full-network VPN access years after remote work went mainstream, and almost…
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The Home Computer That Cracked a Password Manager
A senior engineer's personal computer, running consumer software far outside any corporate policy, became the single point of failure behind one of the…
The Real Cost of Making Employees Wait on IT
A national survey put a dollar figure on something every small business already feels: the hours people lose sitting around while a tech problem gets…
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A $25,000 Lesson From a One-Doctor Neurology Practice
Federal regulators didn't fine this small New York practice for getting hacked. They fined it for never having checked where it was vulnerable in the…
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When Cyber Insurance Says No: Inside the Industry’s New Underwriting Bar
More than half of security leaders say their insurer has denied a cyber claim in the past year — and the industry itself says coverage is only getting…
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