August 2026 News & Updates
CTC News Industry News Updates It almost feels dirty to say but there are only 400 vulnerabilities patched from Microsoft in this month’s Patch Tuesday. Three months ago, that would…
Read moreHotel WiFi May Be a Trap Right Now
If you have people traveling for work, you need to know what’s happening in hotel lobbies and business centers right now. Midnight Blizzard (APT29) — a Russian state-sponsored group —…
Read moreJuly 2026 News & Updates
CTC News Industry News Updates DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY – Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday was record-breaking: 570 vulnerabilities patched, including 59 critical bugs and 3 zero-day vulnerabilities (two actively exploited in…
Read moreMASSIVE Patch Tuesday for July 2026
I’ll be posting a more extensive article on this later (once I’ve had a chance to read through the info) but wanted to note that the update list this month…
Read moreALERT: New “Pink” Extortion Group Targeting Businesses with Fake IT Support Calls
Threat intelligence courtesy of KnowBe4 KnowBe4’s threat research team has identified a new extortion campaign targeting businesses. A group calling themselves “Pink” is using voice phishing (vishing) to impersonate internal…
Read moreMassive Fortinet Breach: What Happened and What We’re Doing About It
June 2026 — If your business uses a Fortinet firewall for remote access (SSL VPN), you need to know about a major security incident that just surfaced. Here’s what we…
Read moreDentrix Document Preview Issue: What Dental Practices Need to Know
Update (June 2026): A recent Microsoft security update is affecting Word document previews in Dentrix’s Document Center. Here’s what you should know — and why we recommend against Dentrix’s “quick…
Read moreJune 2026 News & Updates
CTC News Industry News Updates DEPLOY IMMEDIATELY – Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday was record-breaking: 206 vulnerabilities patched, including 36 critical bugs and 3 zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the…
Read morePattern Recognition: How Staying Invested Turned a Decade-Old Warning Into Actionable Intelligence
In January 2015, Rapid7 published research on a vulnerability that now reads like prophecy—unless you were paying attention then. HD Moore’s team found roughly 5,800 Automated Tank Gauges (ATGs) sitting…
Read moreClient Nightmare – The Rogue MSP
Case Study: Why Clean Offboarding Brings Clients Back The Timeline Eleven years ago, we onboarded a new client. For nine years, we managed their entire IT environment—servers, workstations, network infrastructure,…
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