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08/13/2026

A vendor called Klue got breached, and dozens of companies lost their Salesforce data because of it, including LastPass. Every app you connect to your CRM or email holds a key to your data. Review your connected apps today and remove anything you don't recognize or no longer use.

Salesforce disabled Klue Battlecards integration after attackers used compromised OAuth tokens to access customer CRM data via connected apps.

08/10/2026

Microsoft's new Copilot Cowork runs whole multi-step tasks on its own, like sorting files and sending emails, then hands back the finished work. But it's billed by usage, so a busy team can run up the bill fast. Set spending limits before you let people loose on it.

Copilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, bringing secure, AI-powered automation for complex enterprise tasks in Microsoft 365.

08/07/2026

Attackers are hijacking Ubiquiti UniFi gear, the wifi and network kit many small offices run on. Update UniFi OS now, and get the management console off the public internet. If you can log in from anywhere in the world, so can an attacker. Not sure if you have it? Ask your IT.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added multiple Ubiquiti UniFi OS vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, warning that at least one of the flaws is now being actively exploited in the wild.

08/04/2026

If a website tells you to press Windows+R and paste in a command to 'verify you're human,' close the tab. That's a scam called ClickFix, and it installs malware the second you hit Enter. No real website ever asks you to run a command. CAPTCHAs just make you click pictures.

ClickFix attacks are delivering BabaDeda, Lorem Ipsum, and Potemkin loaders to deploy stealers, RATs, and ransomware-linked tooling.

08/01/2026

Many ransomware groups delete your backups before they lock your files, so paying becomes the only way out. Keep one backup copy offline with its own login, separate from your admin password, and test a restore this month. If you've never tried it, you don't know it works.

INC Ransomware Emerges as Major RaaS Threat in 2026 with 830+ Victims Since 2023 | Read more hacking news on The Hacker News cybersecurity news website and learn how to protect against cyberattacks and software vulnerabilities.

07/28/2026

On May 19, 2026, Google Cloud's automated abuse-detection system incorrectly suspended Railway, one of its largest customers. The decision took Railway's entire platform offline for eight hours and pulled thousands of small businesses down with it.

Railway is a platform other businesses use to run their applications. Their production environment lives on Google Cloud, where Railway spends more than $10 million a year. That spend didn't matter when an automated system decided the account looked suspicious. The suspension happened instantly. Railway waited about an hour for a human at Google to respond, and the total outage ran around eight hours. For Railway's customers, that meant unreachable apps for a full workday with no warning and no path to escalate.

This matters to your business even if you've never heard of Railway. Your business depends on services you don't control and run on platforms you don't manage. Most of those platforms reserve the right to override their own SLAs when an automated system flags your account or your vendor's account. A cloud provider's automated decision can take you down as fast as a hacker can, and you have less recourse.

The work to do this month is in three pieces. Start with a dependency map. Each SaaS tool your business depends on (QuickBooks, HubSpot, payroll, CRM, file storage) runs on a cloud platform somewhere, and you need to know which.

With that map, identify which workflows have a manual fallback. Can you take orders without your CRM for a day? Can you process payments without your usual processor? The answer might be no, but knowing now is better than discovering it during an outage.

Last, read the SLA for the services you depend on. Most cloud SLAs include carve-outs for "automated abuse detection" and similar events. The recourse, even when the provider is at fault, is usually a service credit on your next bill, not the cost of your lost workday.

Cloud providers fail by accident and by their own systems making wrong calls. Your business should be able to function for at least a workday without any one of them.

This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit

07/26/2026

On May 7, 2026, an Amazon Web Services data center overheated and took out an entire availability zone in US-East-1, AWS's most popular region. Several core AWS services went down, and any business application hosted in that zone was unreachable for hours.

Cloud outages happen to every major provider, not just AWS. Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Slack have all gone down long enough to break a business day in the last three years.

If your business loses meaningful money during downtime, you need a "the cloud is down" plan. The plan has three parts.

A dependency map. Every critical workflow in your business should be mapped to the SaaS or cloud service it depends on. Your accountant uses QuickBooks Online, which runs on AWS. Your sales team uses HubSpot, which also runs on AWS. Your phones might be VoIP, which depends on a carrier you've never named. The map doesn't need to be pretty, but it does need to exist.

An out-of-band communications path. Phone numbers for your key vendors, your insurance broker, your IT provider, and a contact for every team lead. This list lives on paper or on a phone that doesn't depend on your office network. Use the same list from your incident response plan.

A decision tree for what stops and what continues. Some work has to keep happening even when systems are down (taking orders, handling client emergencies). Other work can wait. Pre-decide which is which, so that conversation isn't happening for the first time during an outage.

Test the plan once a year. Turn off access to one major SaaS tool for an afternoon and watch what your team does. Whatever you learn from the dry run is cheaper than learning it for real.

Overheating at a single data center has been identified as the cause of the AWS outage, which impacted customers such as Coinbase

07/24/2026

In May 2026, hackers breached Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning platform used by thousands of schools and universities. The attackers claimed data on 275 million users across more than 9,000 institutions.

That breach didn't just affect Instructure. Every one of those 9,000 institutions now has to deal with breach notification laws in every state where any of its affected users live. That means 50 different timelines, penalty structures, and disclosure requirements to track.

Your business probably isn't running Canvas. What happens to Instructure's customers, though, is the same thing that happens to your business when one of your vendors gets breached. You are responsible for notifying your customers under your state's law, often within 60 days, sometimes less. You don't get to wait for the vendor to handle it.

The work to do this week. Pull your list of SaaS vendors (the one you built from the SaaS audit). For each vendor that holds customer data, write down what data they hold and which state's law applies to each of your customers. Then call your cyber insurance broker and ask for the breach notification playbook your policy entitles you to. If they don't have one, that's worth knowing right now, not during an incident.

A vendor breach becomes your legal problem the day they tell you about it. The preparation has to happen earlier.

The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.

07/22/2026

In May 2026, Intuit announced it would lay off around 3,000 employees to refocus the company on AI.

Intuit owns QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma. Most small businesses use at least one of these. The layoffs are part of a bigger pattern across the tech industry, where companies built around traditional software are rebuilding around AI products. Small business tools are next in line.

Four things to expect over the next 18 months:

1. Product changes. Familiar features get replaced or buried inside AI-first workflows. The QuickBooks you use in 2027 probably won't look like the one you use today.
2. Support friction. Fewer humans on the support line means longer queues and more chatbot-first triage. Get to know your account manager's direct line before you need it.
3. Pricing changes. AI features get bundled into higher tiers, and the base tier loses ground. Expect a renewal call where the rep asks "have you seen our new AI plan?"
4. Data going somewhere new. Your accounting, payroll, and marketing data is the fuel for the new AI features. Check the privacy and data-use settings on each Intuit product you use, and find out what's opted in by default.

Stay on Intuit if it works for you. Just spend the next 18 months auditing what you're paying for, where your data goes, and who answers your calls when something breaks.

In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products.

07/18/2026

In May 2026, Google launched a one-click tool that imports your team's Microsoft 365 user accounts directly into Google Workspace.

The feature is built into the Workspace setup flow for very small and small businesses. It pulls user accounts from M365 in a single step, and a separate import handles the data behind those accounts (emails, calendars, contacts, and OneDrive files). What used to be a multi-day project with consultants now takes under an hour for a 25-person team.

The real story is the switching cost. For years, a small business that started on M365 was effectively locked in by the labor of moving off. That lock just got weaker, and it changes the conversation even if you have no plans to switch.

Your next Microsoft 365 renewal becomes a real negotiation. Price increases that used to feel unavoidable because the alternative was too much work now have a reasonable Plan B. Bring it up. The reps already know.

If you're paying for M365 features your team doesn't use (Premium licensing, Defender add-ons, Power Platform seats), the renewal is also the moment to right-size. You're probably paying for two or three tiers above what your team actually needs.

Whether you plan to switch or not, your negotiating position just improved. Use it.

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