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Your attack surface is talking. Are you listening?
Overlooked assets often become the easiest entry points for attackers. As digital environments grow, periodic security checks aren’t enough.
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#CyberSecurity
Overlooked assets often become the easiest entry points for attackers. As digital environments grow, periodic security checks aren’t enough.
🔗 www.sequretek.com/sequretek-pe...
#CyberSecurity
January 12, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Your attack surface is talking. Are you listening?
Overlooked assets often become the easiest entry points for attackers. As digital environments grow, periodic security checks aren’t enough.
🔗 www.sequretek.com/sequretek-pe...
#CyberSecurity
Overlooked assets often become the easiest entry points for attackers. As digital environments grow, periodic security checks aren’t enough.
🔗 www.sequretek.com/sequretek-pe...
#CyberSecurity
Great advice from Lesley Carhart on starting a career in OT cybersecurity.
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My Top 5 Recommendations on OT Cybersecurity Student Upskilling
I get asked about where to start learning OT cybersecurity as a student a lot. I fully realize that attention spans are short and people are busy, so without further ado let’s get to my top f…
tisiphone.net
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Great advice from Lesley Carhart on starting a career in OT cybersecurity.
tisiphone.net/2026/01/04/m...
tisiphone.net/2026/01/04/m...
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this.weekinsecurity.com is my weekly newsletter (and blog) that includes all the cyber news you need to know from the week, good news you might've missed, and much more. Plus, a reader-submitted cyber cat every edition.
No email open/link tracking! Out Sundays.
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~this week in security~
a weekly cybersecurity newsletter by Zack Whittaker, plus articles and more.
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January 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM
this.weekinsecurity.com is my weekly newsletter (and blog) that includes all the cyber news you need to know from the week, good news you might've missed, and much more. Plus, a reader-submitted cyber cat every edition.
No email open/link tracking! Out Sundays.
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ClickFix attacks are on the rise, increasingly dangerous and devious, and can get you hacked in a flash.
In this long-read for this.weekinsecurity.com, I explain what you should know about how ClickFix hacks work (+ examples!), why they're so dangerous, and what you can do to avoid these attacks.
In this long-read for this.weekinsecurity.com, I explain what you should know about how ClickFix hacks work (+ examples!), why they're so dangerous, and what you can do to avoid these attacks.
ClickFix attacks are increasingly devious, dangerous, and can get you hacked in an instant
These attacks spoof Windows errors, CAPTCHAs, and real login pages to trick victims into hacking themselves with malware that skirts common cyber defenses.
this.weekinsecurity.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
ClickFix attacks are on the rise, increasingly dangerous and devious, and can get you hacked in a flash.
In this long-read for this.weekinsecurity.com, I explain what you should know about how ClickFix hacks work (+ examples!), why they're so dangerous, and what you can do to avoid these attacks.
In this long-read for this.weekinsecurity.com, I explain what you should know about how ClickFix hacks work (+ examples!), why they're so dangerous, and what you can do to avoid these attacks.
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🔒 Every asset matters.
Our latest blog breaks down how Percept CTEM delivers complete visibility & resilience across 5 stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation & Mobilization.
👉 Read here: www.sequretek.com/resources/bl...
Our latest blog breaks down how Percept CTEM delivers complete visibility & resilience across 5 stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation & Mobilization.
👉 Read here: www.sequretek.com/resources/bl...
January 9, 2026 at 6:38 AM
🔒 Every asset matters.
Our latest blog breaks down how Percept CTEM delivers complete visibility & resilience across 5 stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation & Mobilization.
👉 Read here: www.sequretek.com/resources/bl...
Our latest blog breaks down how Percept CTEM delivers complete visibility & resilience across 5 stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation & Mobilization.
👉 Read here: www.sequretek.com/resources/bl...
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Our CEO & Co-Founder, Pankit Desai, highlights why cyber resilience must move beyond compliance to continuous vigilance, especially for critical infrastructure and digital supply chains.
Read more:
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How technology reshaped digital ecosystems in 2025 & what comes next in 2026
thetechpanda.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Our CEO & Co-Founder, Pankit Desai, highlights why cyber resilience must move beyond compliance to continuous vigilance, especially for critical infrastructure and digital supply chains.
Read more:
thetechpanda.com/how-technolo...
#CyberSecurity
Read more:
thetechpanda.com/how-technolo...
#CyberSecurity
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Sequretek’s Sept 2025 white paper exposed tax-season phishing using IT Dept impersonation & Valley RAT ahead of the curve. Now validated by CloudSEK’s TRIAD blog.
Whitepaper:
tinyurl.com/ITR-Imperson...
Domain Correlation Report: tinyurl.com/DomainCR
Whitepaper:
tinyurl.com/ITR-Imperson...
Domain Correlation Report: tinyurl.com/DomainCR
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Sequretek’s Sept 2025 white paper exposed tax-season phishing using IT Dept impersonation & Valley RAT ahead of the curve. Now validated by CloudSEK’s TRIAD blog.
Whitepaper:
tinyurl.com/ITR-Imperson...
Domain Correlation Report: tinyurl.com/DomainCR
Whitepaper:
tinyurl.com/ITR-Imperson...
Domain Correlation Report: tinyurl.com/DomainCR
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My favorite part of reading is when a book gets so good you have to set it down, (finger marking the page), and just let your mind be blown for a minute before picking it back up again.
January 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
My favorite part of reading is when a book gets so good you have to set it down, (finger marking the page), and just let your mind be blown for a minute before picking it back up again.
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404 Media speaks with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, the president of the Signal Foundation to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. When did you start using Signal?
Listen now: youtu.be/kconAXZgsxg?...
Listen now: youtu.be/kconAXZgsxg?...
January 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
404 Media speaks with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, the president of the Signal Foundation to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. When did you start using Signal?
Listen now: youtu.be/kconAXZgsxg?...
Listen now: youtu.be/kconAXZgsxg?...
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🚨 Dec 2025 #SeQureNewsBytes
Fake airport Wi-Fi scams, global fraud takedowns, rising AI risks, major breaches, new cyber regs & exploited CVEs across Fortinet, Cisco, Apple, MS & Android.
📘 Read full report: www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
#CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel #AI #Scams #InfoSec
Fake airport Wi-Fi scams, global fraud takedowns, rising AI risks, major breaches, new cyber regs & exploited CVEs across Fortinet, Cisco, Apple, MS & Android.
📘 Read full report: www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
#CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel #AI #Scams #InfoSec
January 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
🚨 Dec 2025 #SeQureNewsBytes
Fake airport Wi-Fi scams, global fraud takedowns, rising AI risks, major breaches, new cyber regs & exploited CVEs across Fortinet, Cisco, Apple, MS & Android.
📘 Read full report: www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
#CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel #AI #Scams #InfoSec
Fake airport Wi-Fi scams, global fraud takedowns, rising AI risks, major breaches, new cyber regs & exploited CVEs across Fortinet, Cisco, Apple, MS & Android.
📘 Read full report: www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
#CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel #AI #Scams #InfoSec
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The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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🚀 How is tech transforming manufacturing?
In The QUT Episode 3 | Short 10, Vinod Khode & Pankit Desai discuss AI, IoT, automation & cyber resilience shaping future-ready factories.
🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/_IPjSQ0VGLE
#TheQut #Manufacturing #DigitalTransformation #Cybersecurity
In The QUT Episode 3 | Short 10, Vinod Khode & Pankit Desai discuss AI, IoT, automation & cyber resilience shaping future-ready factories.
🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/_IPjSQ0VGLE
#TheQut #Manufacturing #DigitalTransformation #Cybersecurity
How Is Tech Transforming the Future of Manufacturing? | The Qut Episode 3 | Short 10
YouTube video by Sequretek
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January 2, 2026 at 6:08 AM
🚀 How is tech transforming manufacturing?
In The QUT Episode 3 | Short 10, Vinod Khode & Pankit Desai discuss AI, IoT, automation & cyber resilience shaping future-ready factories.
🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/_IPjSQ0VGLE
#TheQut #Manufacturing #DigitalTransformation #Cybersecurity
In The QUT Episode 3 | Short 10, Vinod Khode & Pankit Desai discuss AI, IoT, automation & cyber resilience shaping future-ready factories.
🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/_IPjSQ0VGLE
#TheQut #Manufacturing #DigitalTransformation #Cybersecurity
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KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge “thank you” to all of our readers — newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days […]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge “thank you” to all of our readers — newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days […]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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New, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social and me: We just published TechCrunch's annual jealousy list of cybersecurity stories that we *didn’t* publish but wish we had. This is the very best cybersecuirty reporting from our friends at competing publications.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/t...
These are the cybersecurity stories we were jealous of in 2025 | TechCrunch
The very best reporting and investigative journalism from our friends at other publications.
techcrunch.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social and me: We just published TechCrunch's annual jealousy list of cybersecurity stories that we *didn’t* publish but wish we had. This is the very best cybersecuirty reporting from our friends at competing publications.
techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/t...
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
December 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
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Romania’s national water authority has been hit by a major ransomware attack, knocking out 1,000 systems while operations continue manually as teams work to restore services.
Read: hackread.com/romanian-wat...
#Romania #Bitlocker #Ransomware #OT #CyberAttack
Read: hackread.com/romanian-wat...
#Romania #Bitlocker #Ransomware #OT #CyberAttack
Ransomware Hits Romanian Water Authority, 1000 Systems Knocked Offline
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread
hackread.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Romania’s national water authority has been hit by a major ransomware attack, knocking out 1,000 systems while operations continue manually as teams work to restore services.
Read: hackread.com/romanian-wat...
#Romania #Bitlocker #Ransomware #OT #CyberAttack
Read: hackread.com/romanian-wat...
#Romania #Bitlocker #Ransomware #OT #CyberAttack
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`netstat` on Unix, macOS, and BSD (now replaced by `ss` on Linux) is a standard command for viewing and debugging network connections. There is a newer, more modern tool called snitch, written in Go lang, designed to inspect network connections on Linux and Unix with a cleaner and easy to use TUI
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
`netstat` on Unix, macOS, and BSD (now replaced by `ss` on Linux) is a standard command for viewing and debugging network connections. There is a newer, more modern tool called snitch, written in Go lang, designed to inspect network connections on Linux and Unix with a cleaner and easy to use TUI
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Are you a security researcher or journalist? We want to hear from you — please take this survey!
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
Survey about legal and criminal threats experienced by journalists and security researchers
Researchers who try to responsibly disclose leaks, vulnerabilities, and other security breaches or mishaps may face legal threats or lawsuits. Similarly, journalists may find themselves threatened wit...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Are you a security researcher or journalist? We want to hear from you — please take this survey!
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
Dissent Doe at DataBreaches.net, and yours truly at this.weekinsecurity.com, are running this survey to explore the state of legal demands and criminal threats in cybersecurity.
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💥 Sequretek rockets to #50 on the MSSP Alert Top 250 List! 🚀 From Top 150 in 2022 to Top 50 in 2025, our rise is powered by trust & ambition. Our journey continues with more breakthroughs ahead. Stay with us! 🔐💪 #Cybersecurity #MSSPAlert #Milestone #PartnerPower
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
💥 Sequretek rockets to #50 on the MSSP Alert Top 250 List! 🚀 From Top 150 in 2022 to Top 50 in 2025, our rise is powered by trust & ambition. Our journey continues with more breakthroughs ahead. Stay with us! 🔐💪 #Cybersecurity #MSSPAlert #Milestone #PartnerPower
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🚨 Microsoft’s Dec 2025 Patch Advisory is live!
50+ vulnerabilities patched across Windows, Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Azure Monitor & more, including multiple Critical RCEs and an actively exploited CLFS EoP (CVE-2025-62221).
🛡️ Patch now → stay resilient.
www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
50+ vulnerabilities patched across Windows, Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Azure Monitor & more, including multiple Critical RCEs and an actively exploited CLFS EoP (CVE-2025-62221).
🛡️ Patch now → stay resilient.
www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨 Microsoft’s Dec 2025 Patch Advisory is live!
50+ vulnerabilities patched across Windows, Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Azure Monitor & more, including multiple Critical RCEs and an actively exploited CLFS EoP (CVE-2025-62221).
🛡️ Patch now → stay resilient.
www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
50+ vulnerabilities patched across Windows, Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Azure Monitor & more, including multiple Critical RCEs and an actively exploited CLFS EoP (CVE-2025-62221).
🛡️ Patch now → stay resilient.
www.sequretek.com/resources/re...
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🎙️ We hosted Vinod Khode, Sr. VP and Group CIO at Varroc, at our Sequretek Mumbai office for Episode 3 of The Qut with our CEO & Co-Founder, Pankit Desai.
A powerful conversation on cyber risks, compliance, and resilience.
🎥 Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Eh-bcWe...
A powerful conversation on cyber risks, compliance, and resilience.
🎥 Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Eh-bcWe...
December 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
🎙️ We hosted Vinod Khode, Sr. VP and Group CIO at Varroc, at our Sequretek Mumbai office for Episode 3 of The Qut with our CEO & Co-Founder, Pankit Desai.
A powerful conversation on cyber risks, compliance, and resilience.
🎥 Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Eh-bcWe...
A powerful conversation on cyber risks, compliance, and resilience.
🎥 Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/live/Eh-bcWe...
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To 'AI First' Companies.
Remember, there are no AI generated customers.
People invest in people.
Remember, there are no AI generated customers.
People invest in people.
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
To 'AI First' Companies.
Remember, there are no AI generated customers.
People invest in people.
Remember, there are no AI generated customers.
People invest in people.
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🎉 Day 1 at AISS 2025 – Live!
We’re at Pod 14, NCoE Innovation Arcade, showcasing how Sequretek is driving cybersecurity innovation and helping organizations build stronger digital resilience.
📍 Pullman Aerocity | 🗓️ Dec 3–5
#AISS2025 #Cybersecurity #InnovationArcade
We’re at Pod 14, NCoE Innovation Arcade, showcasing how Sequretek is driving cybersecurity innovation and helping organizations build stronger digital resilience.
📍 Pullman Aerocity | 🗓️ Dec 3–5
#AISS2025 #Cybersecurity #InnovationArcade
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
🎉 Day 1 at AISS 2025 – Live!
We’re at Pod 14, NCoE Innovation Arcade, showcasing how Sequretek is driving cybersecurity innovation and helping organizations build stronger digital resilience.
📍 Pullman Aerocity | 🗓️ Dec 3–5
#AISS2025 #Cybersecurity #InnovationArcade
We’re at Pod 14, NCoE Innovation Arcade, showcasing how Sequretek is driving cybersecurity innovation and helping organizations build stronger digital resilience.
📍 Pullman Aerocity | 🗓️ Dec 3–5
#AISS2025 #Cybersecurity #InnovationArcade