BMT Announcement

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition

Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabilities earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, and the company warns that attackers are already exploiting one of the bugs fixed today. January’s Microsoft zero-day flaw — [...]

By |2026-01-14T12:40:21-05:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes. Today, we’ll dig through digital clues left behind by the hackers, network operators and services that appear to have [...]

By |2026-01-09T02:08:16-05:00January 8th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review

The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to address a broad spectrum of technology challenges, from cybersecurity and privacy to countering disinformation, fraud and corruption. These shifts, along with the president’s efforts to restrict [...]

By |2025-12-19T14:07:41-05:00December 19th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

LinkedIn Boosts People Search With New AI Tools

If you’ve ever tried to look someone up on LinkedIn and found yourself playing “keyword roulette,” you’re not alone. For years, the platform’s search box rewarded very literal searches, and unless you typed the exact job title or patiently clicked through a maze of filters, perfectly good matches slipped [...]

By |2025-12-16T14:54:04-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: Awards, BMT Announcement, News|Tags: , , |

Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content

Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are [...]

By |2026-01-14T13:07:11-05:00December 16th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered – Google Chrome

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, [...]

By |2025-12-12T14:23:18-05:00December 12th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition

Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 tackles one zero-day bug that is already being exploited, as well as two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Despite releasing a lower-than-normal number of security updates [...]

By |2025-12-10T08:38:39-05:00December 9th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill

A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious ties to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian university builds drones for Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Nerdify homepage. The link between essay mills and Russian attack drones might seem improbable, [...]

By |2025-12-10T08:40:36-05:00December 6th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

BMT Named Among Top Cybersecurity Companies in NJBIZ 2025 Reader Rankings

We are proud to announce that BMT has once again been recognized as one of the top three companies in the Cybersecurity Company category for the 2025 NJBIZ Reader Rankings. This recognition is especially meaningful as it reflects nominations and votes directly from NJBIZ readers—business leaders, partners, and members [...]

By |2025-11-21T12:52:14-05:00November 21st, 2025|Categories: Awards, BMT Announcement, News|Tags: , , |

Mozilla Says It’s Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep

In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites — after KrebsOnSecurity revealed Onerep’s founder had created dozens of people-search services and was continuing [...]

By |2025-11-26T09:07:34-05:00November 20th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap

An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites. But security experts say doing so may have also triggered an impromptu [...]

By |2025-11-26T11:42:29-05:00November 19th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|
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