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From Mailbox to Revenue: Top 7 Direct Mail Platforms That Actually Deliver Results

In this post, I will show you the top 7 direct mail platforms that actually deliver results. Direct mail is no longer the slow, analog underdog of the marketing world. Today, the most forward-thinking brands are pairing physical mail with data intelligence, automation, and API-driven workflows to outperform purely digital campaigns. Whether you are a…

New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However,…

Internet censorship index reveals Russia’s lead and widespread content blocking

Global study shows targeted internet censorship worldwide, with Russia leading; VPNs, news, and adult content are most frequently blocked categories. The Global Internet Censorship Index 2026 offers a clear view of how governments around the world control online access. Researchers tested 74 popular websites across 53 countries using residential proxies to simulate real users. After…

ReadySteadyPlug receives $1.51 million ARENA funding to accelerate national rollout of affordable EV chargers in apartments

– ARENA funding to accelerate the national rollout of smart strata-based EV charging infrastructure – ReadySteadyPlug’s smart Level 1 solution avoids costly switchboard or infrastructure upgrades with limited upfront contribution from the Owners Corporation – Funding comes amid surging EV demand driven by global fuel crisis

All supported cPanel versions hit by critical auth bug, now patched

cPanel fixed a critical authentication flaw that could let attackers access servers. The issue affects all supported versions. cPanel released security updates to address a critical authentication vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to its control panel. The flaw affects all supported versions, raising serious risks for exposed servers. cPanel is a…

Netskope, Rubrik, Commvault Expand Google Cloud Security

At this year’s Google Cloud Next 2026 conference in Las Vegas, tech and cybersecurity companies across the channel unveiled their latest announcements spanning AI, security, infrastructure, and more. While artificial intelligence was firmly front and center, themes around enhanced cybersecurity, particularly AI guardrails and cyber resilience, emerged as equally important priorities. In this recap, we…

Today’s Odd Web Requests, (Wed, Apr 29th)

Today, two different “new” requests hit our honeypots. Both appear to be recon requests and not associated with specific vulnerabilities. But as always, please let me know if you have additional information 1 – Broadcom API Gateway GET /bam/restart/if/required Host: [redacted]:8080 Connection: close This request is targeting a Broadcom API Gateway endpoint. As is, the request should…

Visual Studio cloud agents now run inside GitHub Copilot

Microsoft’s April update to Visual Studio introduces cloud agent integration in GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to offload tasks to remote infrastructure for scalable, isolated execution. You can now start cloud agent sessions directly from Visual Studio. Custom agents now support user-level definitions that persist across projects, making it easier to reuse configurations. The update also…

Critical GitHub RCE bug exposed millions of repositories

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in GitHub could potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server. Uncovered by Wiz researchers, the now-patched bug exploited how GitHub handles server-side “git push” operations. By crafting malicious input within a standard Git push, an authenticated user could execute arbitrary commands via…

Top Benefits of Cybersecurity Services for Strengthening Business Network Security

In this post, I will talk about the top benefits of cybersecurity services for strengthening business network security. Modern businesses depend on connected systems, cloud tools, mobile devices, and shared data to operate efficiently each day. As networks grow more complex, security risks also increase, making it essential for companies to protect digital assets, communication…

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CISA, Microsoft warn of active exploitation of Windows Shell vulnerability (CVE-2026-32202)

Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-32202, a zero-click Windows Shell spoofing vulnerability that causes victims’ systems to authenticate the attacker’s server, CISA and Microsoft have warned. About CVE-2026-32202 CVE-2026-32202 stems from an incomplete patch for CVE-2026-21510, a vulnerability that, in conjunction with CVE-2026-21513, has been exploited by APT28 (aka Fancy Bear) via weaponized LNK files that bypass…

Critical cPanel Authentication Vulnerability Identified — Update Your Server Immediately

cPanel has released security updates to address a security issue impacting various authentication paths that could allow an attacker to obtain access to the control panel software. The problem affects all currently supported versions, according to an alert released by cPanel on Tuesday. The issue has been addressed in the following versions – 11.110.0.97 11.118.0.63…

AWS leans on prior ingenuity to face future AI and quantum threats

As Amazon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its AWS cloud this year, the world’s biggest cloud computing provider now faces two giant cybersecurity threats — AI and quantum. How the company will navigate these emerging issues to ensure the security and resilience of systems used by its millions of corporate customers remains an evolving question.…

CISA Adds Actively Exploited ConnectWise and Windows Flaws to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-1708 (CVSS score: 8.4) – A path traversal vulnerability in  ConnectWise ScreenConnect

Microchip expands Trust Shield with PQC-ready root of trust and secure boot controllers

Microchip Technology is expanding its portfolio of Trust Shield, PQC‑ready devices with the TS1800 Platform Root of Trust controller and the TS50x secure boot controller. The devices are designed to help system architects address emerging cybersecurity mandates, including the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 (CNSA 2.0), while supporting…

Kaseya agentic IT management unifies data and automates ticketing, security and backups

Kaseya has introduced an agentic IT management platform powered by Kaseya Intelligence, combining unified data across IT operations, cybersecurity, and resilience with an execution layer that autonomously triages tickets, contains threats, verifies backups, and optimizes workflows. This is the core architectural difference. Every major vendor has added AI, but when it runs on partial data…

DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud unifies infrastructure, inference, and agents for production AI

DigitalOcean has introduced the AI-Native Cloud, an end-to-end platform built for the inference and agentic era. Spanning infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agents, it already supports production workloads at Higgsfield AI, Hippocratic AI, ISMG, Bright Data, and LawVo. AI-native builders are caught between imperfect options: hyperscalers built for the enterprise cloud era, with…

amazee.ai’s amazeeClaw simplifies production deployment of AI agents with regional control

amazee.ai has announced the launch of amazeeClaw, a managed OpenClaw hosting platform that enables developers and enterprises to deploy production-ready AI agents with data sovereignty and regional control without having to set up their own infrastructure. As adoption of AI agents and agentic automation accelerates, organizations are discovering that moving from prototype to production is…

U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2024-1708 (CVSS score of 8.4) ConnectWise ScreenConnect Path Traversal…

Margin vs. Madness: Fixing MSSP Top 5 Operational Nightmares

Leading a managed security services provider has never been a comfortable job. And it isn’t now, though the demand for MSSPs has never been higher. The global threat landscape is expanding faster than most enterprise security teams can keep pace with, and organizations across every sector are turning to managed providers to fill the gap.   For MSSP leaders, this…

Virtue AI PolicyGuard turns AI policies into enforceable runtime guardrails

Virtue AI has announced PolicyGuard, a system that enables enterprises to define, edit, and enforce custom AI runtime protection guardrails across models, agents, and applications. Most organizations have “AI acceptable use policies.” When they need to enforce those policies, however, the tooling is static, fragmented, and generic: built for no industry in particular and no…

Eino’s agentic network observability platform enables real-time, AI-driven network insights

Eino has introduced a new class of solution for enterprises known as agentic network observability. Designed for enterprises with multiple network technologies and mission-critical use cases, Eino’s agentic solution uses a 3D digital twin approach of the physical environment to deliver real-time insights for almost any wireless networking technology, deployed together or separately. This enables…

Fedora Linux 44 ships with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6

The Fedora Project released Fedora Linux 44, delivering updated desktop environments, revised installer behavior, and several lower-level system changes across its editions and spins. The release covers the project’s flagship editions, including Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, Cloud, Server, CoreOS, and IoT, alongside the Atomic Desktops lineup of Silverblue, Kinoite, Cosmic, Budgie, and Sway. Alternate spins…

LiteLLM CVE-2026-42208 SQL Injection Exploited within 36 Hours of Disclosure

In yet another instance of threat actors quickly jumping on the exploitation bandwagon, a newly disclosed critical security flaw in BerriAI’s LiteLLM Python package has come under active exploitation in the wild within 36 hours of the bug becoming public knowledge. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42208 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an SQL injection that could…

The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong

In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while organizations must protect their own data, identities, and configurations. The discussion covers default settings worth changing tomorrow, including legacy protocols like SMTP AUTH that survive due to printer, scanner, and ERP…

AI prompt confidentiality and false citations worry researchers

Academic researchers using commercial AI tools for literature review and idea generation are sending unpublished research questions, draft hypotheses, and proprietary domain knowledge into systems whose data handling they do not understand. A think-aloud study of 15 researchers documents the workarounds these users have built to manage what they see as unresolved confidentiality and output…

SAS makes AI governance the centerpiece of its agent strategy

Enterprises are quickly moving from AI experimentation to deployment, however, when agentic AI begins making more decisions, invoking more tools, and operating across fragmented data environments, there can be an erosion of visibility, governance, and trust. SAS laid out its answer to that problem at its annual conference, SAS Innovate, introducing a new family of…

More fake extensions linked to GlassWorm found in Open VSX code marketplace

The threat actor seeding the Open VSX code marketplace with fraudulent extensions that download the GlassWorm malware has uploaded 73 more impersonated links, as its attempt to infect software supply chains continues. Philipp Burckhardt, head of threat intelligence at Socket, which revealed the latest activity, called it a “significant escalation” in the gang’s activity, after…

7 Best Network Security Tools to Use in 2026

This guide is for IT professionals, security teams, and business leaders looking to strengthen network defenses in 2026. It covers the best network security tools to protect data and help reduce overall organizational risk. Network security tools incorporate hardware and software technologies, methods, and policies to preserve network integrity and prevent potential breaches. These tools…

Spy agency officials say job loss anxiety, moving fast ‘safely’ among top challenges in AI workforce overhaul

Like many organizations, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is moving to integrate AI tools into their business operations. Jay Harless, director of human development at NGA, said the agency is trying to strike a balance: move fast enough to keep pace in what U.S. national security officials increasingly view as an AI arms race with…

Best AI Deepfake and Scam Detection Tools for Security in 2026

This guide is for security professionals, IT teams, and anyone concerned about AI-driven fraud who wants to detect deepfakes and scams in 2026. It covers some of the best tools available to identify fake videos, audio, and synthetic content. You can fake a video. You can clone a voice. You can even generate a “live”…

6 Best Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems in 2026

This guide is for IT leaders, security teams, and network administrators looking to strengthen threat detection and response in 2026. It covers the top intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) and key features to consider when choosing the right solution. Network security is not just about keeping the bad guys out. It’s about having a…

CVE-2026-3854 GitHub flaw enables remote code execution

Critical GitHub flaw CVE-2026-3854 lets attackers run code with a single git push, exploiting a command injection bug. Researchers found a critical vulnerability in GitHub, tracked as CVE-2026-3854, that allows remote code execution through a simple git push. The vulnerability affects GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Enterprise…

Federal CIO cautious on Anthropic’s Mythos despite planned rollout

Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia said Tuesday the government is approaching Anthropic’s Mythos model with measured expectations, acknowledging both its potential to strengthen federal cyber defenses and the significant uncertainties that remain about how it would perform in real-world conditions. Barbaccia said his direct exposure to Mythos has been limited to evaluations and benchmarking…

Struggling to Manage Multiple Screens – Here’s a Smarter Approach

Managing multiple screens across locations shouldn’t drain your team’s time and patience. Discover practical strategies to simplify multi-display management today. You walk into your office on Monday morning, coffee in hand, and three different people hit you with bad news. The lobby screen is frozen. The break room display is showing last month’s menu. The…

What the March 2026 Threat Technique Catalog update means for your AWS environment

The AWS Customer Incident Response Team (AWS CIRT) regularly encounters patterns that repeat across their engagements when helping customers respond to security incidents. We’re passionate about making sure that information is widely accessible so that everyone can improve their security posture and their organization’s resilience to disruption. The primary method we use to share this…

Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security vulnerability impacting GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server that could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution with a single “git push” command. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-3854 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a case of command injection that could allow an attacker with push access…

ClickUp Data Leak Exposes Enterprise Emails for Over a Year 

A hardcoded API key embedded in ClickUp’s public website has quietly exposed hundreds of corporate and government email addresses for more than a year. The flaw, first reported in early 2025, remained active as of April 2026 — allowing anyone to access sensitive data with a simple request and no authentication. “I went to http://clickup[.]com,…

Infra + security: why more & more CISOs are starting to own infrastructure

Over the past year, I have started to see a growing trend that in more and more organizations, CISOs are taking ownership of infrastructure teams. Where CISOs aren’t directly taking over infrastructure teams, they are exerting more direct control over how infrastructure is designed and operated. Like many structural shifts in cybersecurity, this is developing…

Brazilian LofyGang Resurfaces After Three Years With Minecraft LofyStealer Campaign

A cybercrime group of Brazilian origin has resurfaced after more than three years to orchestrate a campaign that targets Minecraft players with a new stealer called LofyStealer (aka GrabBot). “The malware disguises itself as a Minecraft hack called ‘Slinky,’” Brazil-based cybersecurity company ZenoX said in a technical report. “It uses the official game icon to…

Fleet hopes to be the MDM provider for the AI Era

Fleet, the independent, open-source, multi-platform MDM service, recently announced its new partner program for VARs and MSPs serving enterprise customers and recruited MobileIron co-founder Suresh Batchu to serve on the company’s board. With those moves in mind, I caught up with company CEO Mike McNeil to find out more about the Fleet’s plans. Given the company’s…