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Here's everything important that happened in the cybers this week.
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Brockton Neighborhood Health Center runs a network of clinics serving about 39,000 patients around Boston, with roughly $84 million in annual revenue and about 830 employees. In November 2024, a ransomware crew called Interlock got in and took what it wanted. Six weeks later, Brockton sent letters to 97,488 current and former patients (the active roster runs about 39,000) explaining …
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Two Stories About the Same December
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On October 6, I wrote up Judge P. Casey Pitts's decision denying most of a motion to dismiss Apollo Information Systems Corp.'s claims, arguing the ruling deserved a busy security leader's attention. The case looks different today. In Document 83, the defendants answer the complaint, concede most of the facts Apollo alleged, and then sue Apollo back. Their counterclaims take …
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Cyber Risk Is Not a Special Snowflake
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Walk into a CFO's office and announce that you've got a 9.8 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) for a production server, and watch what happens. Nothing happens. The CFO has eleventy billion other things to think about and no way to judge whether a 9.8 is a five-alarm fire or a rounding error. Walk in and say the …
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2026 Is Shaping Up to Be the Worst Year to Look for a Cybersecurity Job in Four Years
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If you're job hunting in security right now, the market has fewer doors to knock on than at any point in the past four years. The CyberSN Jobs Report counted 235,786 US cybersecurity job postings between January and September 2026, a 26.4% drop from the 320,210 posted over the same nine months of 2025. Eight of those nine months came …
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What $5.5 million buys when a million Social Security numbers walk out the door
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Roughly a million Americans had their names, mailing addresses, financial account numbers, and Social Security numbers (SSNs) removed from a computer network belonging to a company most of them had never heard of. Their credit unions knew Doxim well enough to hand over member data for document management and customer communications, which is how a vendor in Markham, Ontario ended …
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Podcasts
- I had a great chat with Greg Rasner of Third-Party Threat Hunters
Book!
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Thanks, and have a great weekend! This newsletter is published every Friday I'm in the office.
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