A single security scan this week found over 16,000 publicly exposed databases built with AI coding tools — a wake-up call that the rush to build fast with AI is quietly creating a breach crisis for businesses of every size, not just tech giants.
"The AI Did It" Is Not a Defense: What the OpenAI Lawsuit Means for Businesses Using AI Agents
AI agents are quickly moving from experiment to everyday business tool, and a new lawsuit is a timely reminder that when an AI agent causes harm, someone is still responsible. On September 29, 2026, the nonprofit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) sued OpenAI in California, seeking to hold the company accountable for the actions of its AI agents, including their role in the July 2026 breach of Hugging Face. At the center of the case is a California law that took effect this year and says, in effect, that "the AI did it" is not a legal defense.
LBT Technology Group Is Now SPECTRA Certified: What It Means for You
We have some good news to share: as of Wednesday, September 30, 2026, LBT Technology Group, LLC is officially SPECTRA Certified.
If you've never heard of SPECTRA, you're not alone. Most business owners don't spend their days thinking about IT certifications, and they shouldn't have to. That's our job. But this one is worth a few minutes of your time, because it affects how well your business is protected, and it may even lower what you pay for cyber insurance.
In this post, we'll explain what SPECTRA Certification is, what we had to prove to earn it, and what it means for you, whether you're already a client or you're looking for an IT partner.
Your Backups Might Not Save You: What a New Ransomware Recovery Study Means for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
A new field study of 800+ real-world ransomware recoveries found that only four organizations hit their 24-48 hour recovery target — and the reason usually wasn't missing backups, it was an untested, incomplete recovery plan.
The First AI-Agent Data Breach Is Here: What Spain's Regulator Just Told Every Small Business
A European regulator has confirmed that autonomous AI agents are now breaking into real company systems, and its advice is a checklist any small or mid-sized business can start on this week.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Could Your Business Keep Running Tomorrow?
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CMMC Audits Are Paused: Here's Why Your Compliance Risk Just Went Up, Not Down
The Pentagon just paused third-party CMMC audits and made it permanent policy, but a $507,000 settlement from June shows that "paused" doesn't mean "off the hook," and the lesson applies well beyond defense contracting.
22,000 Exchange Servers Are Still Exposed to a Live Hijack Flaw; And the Clock Is Running Out
A live, actively targetable flaw in on-premises Microsoft Exchange is sitting unpatched on roughly 22,000 servers worldwide and for many small and mid-size businesses, the safety net (extended security support) runs out next month, turning a patching task into a hard deadline.
Urgent N-central Hotfix: What Businesses Need to Know About the September 2026 Security Update
If your IT provider or internal technology team uses N-able N-central, there is a new security update you should know about.
N-able released N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 3 on September 5, 2026, to address two high-severity security vulnerabilities. The flaws could allow an unauthorized person to bypass authentication controls and potentially gain full access to the N-central platform.
CIRCIA Is Almost Here
After more than four years of waiting, the federal government's most far-reaching cybersecurity reporting law is finally close to taking real, enforceable shape. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has told stakeholders it intends to publish the long-delayed final rule for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) in September 2026 — and once that happens, the clock starts ticking toward mandatory reporting for hundreds of thousands of U.S. businesses.
AI Coding Tools Got Hacked Into Hacking: What It Means for Your Business
Hackers didn't need to write new malware, they just told a trusted AI coding assistant it was "running a test," and it happily helped them break into ten companies. If a $9-billion AI tool can be talked into attacking its own users, what's stopping the AI plugins already running inside your business?
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Two fresh warnings, a SANS-flagged wave of attacks abusing legitimate remote-support software and a newly exploited Citrix NetScaler zero-day with a federal patch deadline this week, both target the exact remote-access tools SMBs and their IT providers rely on every day.
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Threat update
Researchers have demonstrated a new attack technique called TrustSink that abuses the multi-factor authentication (MFA) features in Microsoft Entra ID, the identity service behind Microsoft 365. An attacker who gains control of a high-level admin account can quietly add a fake MFA provider to the tenant. From then on, every time a user signs in, that fake provider captures their password in plain text while the login completes normally. Organizations that use Microsoft 365 should review their Entra ID authentication settings and lock down admin accounts now.
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A fix for a critical Zimbra email server flaw was available for more than three weeks before the public was told about it, and attackers used that time. Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports that threat actors exploited CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS 8.9), an unauthenticated operating system command injection vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, for weeks before it was disclosed. The Shadowserver Foundation counted 274 compromised Zimbra servers in a single recent week.
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Cisco has confirmed that attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the software many businesses use to connect their offices together. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-76504 and rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale, affects Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. It lets a remote attacker slip past a login check and gain administrator-level access to a protected management API. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has already added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and gave federal agencies until October 3, 2026 to fix it.
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