Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.
"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.
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.
The MSP Loyalty Paradox: Why Satisfied Clients Are Still Shopping Around
A new industry survey has turned up a number that should make every business using a managed service provider stop and think: 66% of organizations say they're considering switching MSPs within the next 12 months.
Here's the part that doesn't add up at first glance. That same survey found that 96% of those organizations say their current MSP genuinely acts in their best interests. Eighty-seven percent are satisfied with the strategic guidance they're getting. Seventy-nine percent are confident in how their MSP handles security and day-to-day operations.
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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A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website's source code
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Microsoft reminded users that insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols will be disabled soon in future Windows releases.
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