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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into resetting account passwords. A screenshot [...]

By |2026-06-01T14:40:30-05:00June 1st, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Hackers Are Evolving — Cybersecurity Training Should Too

Business owners worldwide have to protect their companies and clients against cybersecurity attacks, which occur every day. Unfortunately, the gap in the cybersecurity workforce totals about 4.8 million people, leaving businesses vulnerable. While the industry faces a talent shortage, some reports suggest that technically skilled people, including teenagers and [...]

By |2026-05-26T14:13:42-05:00May 26th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|Tags: |

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting [...]

By |2026-05-26T13:19:06-05:00May 25th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada

Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February 2026 [...]

By |2026-05-22T02:43:46-05:00May 21st, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Is Your MSP Doing These 5 Things?

Are You Settling for Less from Your IT Support? If Your Managed Service Provider Is Not Doing These 5 Things, You Deserve Better 1) Fast, Reliable Response Times Time is money and your business can't afford delays. Your IT team should jump on issues immediately — every time. 2) [...]

By |2026-05-20T11:56:22-05:00May 20th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|Tags: |

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, [...]

By |2026-05-20T09:07:07-05:00May 18th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers — including Apple, Google, Microsoft, [...]

By |2026-05-14T12:07:41-05:00May 12th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools and Colleges Nationwide

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and [...]

By |2026-05-11T14:08:44-05:00May 7th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

It’s Time to Level Up Your Password Game

We know most relate Passwords to the broccoli of the internet - they’re good for us, but we still hate them. They’re a pain to remember, we have too many of them, and just when we come up with one we actually like, some website tells us it’s not [...]

Careful Adoption of Agentic Artificial Intelligence Services

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with other Security Agencies released this Joint Guidance which discusses key cybersecurity challenges and risks associated with the introduction of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) into information technology environments, as well as best practices for securing agentic AI systems. Agentic artificial intelligence [...]

By |2026-05-04T13:55:27-05:00May 4th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs

A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm’s chief executive says the malicious activity resulted from a security breach [...]

By |2026-04-30T14:42:12-05:00April 30th, 2026|Categories: BMT Announcement|

From Tangled to Tidy—Spring Refresh Your Server Room

Wire You Waiting? It's Time to Clean Up that Server Room! Why is it Important to Keep Your Server/Cable Room Clean? A Messy Area Makes it Difficult to Troubleshoot Network Issues Keeping Dust/Dirt to a Minimum Increases the Longevity of Equipment A Dirty Environment Attracts Rodents that Destroy Equipment [...]

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