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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes

Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today. August’s overstuffed bundle of patch joy from Microsoft did not eclipse [...]

By |2026-08-12T09:13:03-05:00August 11th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

2026 NJBIZ Reader Rankings – Nominate BMT

Help us continue our reign as NJ's Top Cybersecurity Company!  Nominations have officially opened for the 2025 NJBIZ Reader Rankings, and Business Machine Technologies needs your help.  For the past eight years we have had the honor of being part of this list, and we are hoping to make [...]

Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions

A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted [...]

By |2026-08-10T09:55:25-05:00August 6th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and [...]

By |2026-07-22T12:05:01-05:00July 21st, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by [...]

By |2026-07-15T13:30:19-05:00July 14th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|Tags: |

Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a recent data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials — including AWS Govcloud keys — in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before being notified by KrebsOnSecurity. Experts say the gaps [...]

By |2026-07-13T14:45:24-05:00July 13th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names. The X/Twitter account [...]

By |2026-07-10T10:42:17-05:00July 8th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|
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