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Your BitLocker encryption just became USELESS.
A new exploit called “YellowKey” can bypass Windows 11 BitLocker with:
• 1 USB stick
• 5 minutes of access• Zero technical skill
That’s it. Your “encrypted” laptop is now an open book.
The scary part? This was disclosed TODAY. No patch exists. Exploit code is public. Attackers are already using it.
Local businesses: If you think your data is safe because you have BitLocker turned on, you’re wrong. One stolen laptop = complete data breach + massive compliance fines.
This is exactly why DIY IT fails. Your internal team can’t monitor zero-days 24/7 or deploy emergency patches at 2 AM.
We can.
Swipe to see:
→ How the exploit works
→ Who’s at risk (spoiler: you)
→ Why this matters for your business
→ How we protect you
Don’t be tomorrow’s headline.
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ADVISORY // CANVAS LMS BREACH

Your college is on the list.

275,000,000 records. 8,809 schools. Hartnell, MPC, CSUMB, Cabrillo, Gavilan — all confirmed in the ShinyHunters leak.

WHAT’S GONE: Names. Emails. Student IDs. Every Canvas message you ever sent.

WHAT’S COMING: Phishing that uses your real classes, your real instructors, and the way you actually write. Not the obvious stuff. The kind your kids will fall for.

Swipe for the runbook.

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For local business owners: the lesson isn’t “schools got hacked.” Your data lives in dozens of SaaS vendors you’ve never audited. MOVEit. SolarWinds. Kaseya. PowerSchool. Canvas. Same playbook every time — one vendor compromise, thousands of downstream victims. You’re next on the list, you just don’t know which app yet.

Free 30-min Supply-Chain Risk Review for businesses in the Salinas Valley & Monterey. We map every SaaS holding your data and tell you exactly where you’re exposed. No pitch.

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If you save passwords in Microsoft Edge, you need to see this.
A security researcher just dropped a tool that dumps every password saved in Edge — in plain, readable text — in seconds. No hacking required. Just memory access.
Here’s the kicker: Edge loads your entire password vault into RAM the moment it opens, even for sites you haven’t visited. It sits there unencrypted for your whole session.
Chrome doesn’t do this. Brave doesn’t do this. Only Edge.
And when the researcher reported it to Microsoft?
“By design.”
The browser even has the nerve to ask you to re-authenticate before showing you a password in settings — while your entire vault is already sitting in plaintext behind the scenes. Security theater.
This gets worse on shared machines, Remote Desktop environments, and terminal servers. One compromised admin account = every logged-in user’s passwords. Gone.

Microsoft broke everything. Again. 🔥
Patch Tuesday this week locked thousands of servers into BitLocker recovery on first reboot — the fourth time in four years. KB5082063, KB5083769, KB5082052, KB5082200 took out Server 2025, Server 2022, Windows 11, and Windows 10 endpoints that dared to reboot.
Here’s the thing: a locked server isn’t a “tech problem.” It’s your team standing around at 7:42 AM. Nobody working. Clients waiting. Deadlines sliding. Payroll still hitting Friday.
You already know that math.
Worst part? AES-256 without the recovery key isn’t “hard to recover.” It’s mathematically unrecoverable. Your break-fix IT guy doesn’t have the key. Microsoft Tier 3 will tell you “you should have documented it.” A data recovery firm will quote you five figures and weeks of waiting, with no guarantee.
One of our clients called us Wednesday morning in a panic. T&M, not on our managed plan — auto-patch rule they’d configured themselves. Server dead. Whole team standing around.
We’d escrowed the key the day we shipped that server. Back online by 9 AM. Saved them thousands in lost production and a very bad week.
They weren’t managed. Our process still saved them.
For the managed side, we catch it before it ships:
• Patches hit our custom sandboxes within the hour of release
• Test rings flag breaks before your production sees anything
• Bad patch → blocked. We notify Microsoft. We work the fix.
• Your servers only see updates we’ve already proven safe
Patch Tuesday is our problem. Yours is running the business.
Free 30-min BitLocker audit — we’ll tell you where your recovery keys actually live. Or don’t.

One email. One zero where an “o” should be. $37,420 gone.
That’s Business Email Compromise — and it cost U.S. businesses $2.77 billion in 2024. 21,442 reported incidents. Most victims never see the money again. (FBI IC3)
Small business isn’t too small to be a target. You’re the target because you’re small — fewer layers, faster approvals, no one double-checking the wire.
Swipe through the anatomy of the attack — and the five controls that stop it before it costs you.
Need a second set of eyes on your setup? DM us for a free 15-min BEC readiness review. 🔒
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You wouldn’t drive without insurance. So why run your business without IT? 🚨
Both feel like costs you don’t need — until the moment you do.
“We’ve never had a problem” is the same logic as “I’ve never crashed, so I don’t need insurance.” The carriers already priced in the risk. Your clients will too, the first time email is down for three days.
You’re not paying for IT. You’re paying to not be the cautionary tale.
👻 DM “AUDIT” and we’ll map your exposure — free, no commitment.

The official CPU-Z website was hacked last week. For about 19 hours, anyone who clicked “Download” on cpuid.com got redirected to a malicious site serving fake installers.
This wasn’t a sketchy link from a spam email. This was the real website for one of the most downloaded hardware tools in the world.
If your team downloads utilities, browser extensions, or free tools without IT oversight, this is your wake-up call.
Four things you can do right now:
• Verify file hashes before installing
• Make sure your endpoint protection is active and managed
• Restrict local admin rights on workstations
• Update Chrome today (4th zero-day patch of 2026)
Swipe for the full breakdown.

If you use Adobe Reader, read this now.
There’s an active, unpatched vulnerability being exploited in the wild. Opening a PDF invoice is enough to get compromised. You don’t have to click anything within the invoice, have macros enabled, it’s a quick hack.
Until Adobe releases a patch: use your browser to open PDFs, or disable JavaScript in Reader settings.

Introducing Ghosxt Cares 🖤
We’re donating our time and expertise to help Monterey County nonprofits get their IT right — from day one.
🔧 M365 tenant setup
🔧 Professional email on your domain
🔧 Basic website
🔧 DNS done right
🔧 1-hour onboarding session
Your org covers licensing and hosting. We cover the work.
One nonprofit per quarter. 501(c)(3) required.
📩 [email protected] to apply.

If your team is still logging into email with just a password, you're one phishing email away from losing everything in that inbox.
22% of all data breaches start with stolen credentials. 80% of people reuse passwords across accounts. And the 10 most common passwords can be cracked in under a second.
MFA isn't advanced security. It's the bare minimum. And in M365, it takes 15 minutes to turn on.
But not all MFA is equal. Swipe through to see how attackers are getting past basic MFA, and what to do about it.
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