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Expert perspectives on cybersecurity, cloud computing, managed IT, and technology strategy for Texas small businesses — written by Jordan Polasek, Founder of BVTech LLC.
A Heavy Week of KEV Additions: SharePoint, FortiSandbox, and SonicWall Under Fire — July 18, 2026 | Jordan Polasek | BVTech LLC /* BVTech v28 critical CSS…
Read the Full Report →Most phishing attacks that land in your inbox aren't sophisticated. They're cheap, automated, and rely on one thing: your email system letting a stranger…
Read the Full Report →They didn't just break into the appliance that guards your remote workers — they walked out with the keys, the spare keys, and the code to the alarm…
Read the Full Report →Good morning. I'm Jordan Polasek with BVTech, and this week has been a heavy one for the KEV catalog. CISA added ten confirmed exploited vulnerabilities…
Read the Full Report →A few months back, a small Houston professional services firm came to us after a scare that nearly cost them $47,000. Their office manager — sharp,…
Read the Full Report →CISA added three vulnerabilities to the KEV catalog on July 16, 2026: a Microsoft SharePoint deserialization flaw (CVE-2026-58644) and two Fortinet FortiSandbox command-injection flaws (CVE-2026-25089, CVE-2026-39808) —…
Read the Full Report →Two Fortinet FortiSandbox command-injection flaws (CVE-2026-25089, CVE-2026-39808) joined CISA's KEV catalog on July 16, 2026 with 3-day deadlines. Why security appliances keep becoming the way in, and the three…
Read the Full Report →There is a particular sinking feeling in this work: a company ships the fix for a hole, and you realize attackers were already climbing through it before…
Read the Full Report →Good morning, folks. Jordan here with your daily cybersecurity briefing. Over the past two days, CISA added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited…
Read the Full Report →There's a quiet shift happening in how small businesses buy IT support, and it accelerated fast over the last year. The old "call someone when the server…
Read the Full Report →Welcome to this week's security briefing for Texas small businesses. We at BVTech track the threat landscape so you don't have to, and we translate it…
Read the Full Report →Microsoft 365 is powerful, but it ships with a lot of security features turned off or set to their weakest option. That's a problem, because attackers…
Read the Full Report →There is a specific kind of danger that doesn't need you to click anything, download anything, or make a single mistake. It just needs you to open your…
Read the Full Report →Ask ten small-business owners if their data is backed up and nine will say yes. Ask them when they last tested a restore, and the room goes quiet. That…
Read the Full Report →The last time a NetScaler bug went this way, hospitals shut down and casino floors went dark. So when researchers start calling a brandnew Citrix flaw…
Read the Full Report →There's an uncomfortable truth about the network gear humming away in the closet at your office: it is one of the most powerful — and most overlooked —…
Read the Full Report →Most of the security stories I write about start with a flaw in something you bought. This one starts with something a good employee does on an ordinary…
Read the Full Report →You did everything the security people told you to do. You turned on multifactor authentication for your Microsoft 365 accounts, so that even if a…
Read the Full Report →When I founded BVTech LLC here in Texas, I had a clear vision: bring enterprise-level IT solutions to small and medium-sized businesses that had
Read the Full Report →Jordan Polasek breaks down the Fortinet FortiClient EMS zero-day (CVE-2026-35616) added to CISA KEV this week, plus a second critical Ivanti EPMM flaw, and why edge devices remain the single most-targeted segment of…
Read the Full Report →CISA added six vulnerabilities to KEV this week — including a 14-year-old Microsoft VBA flaw and a Fortinet SQL injection being weaponized for Medusa ransomware. Jordan Polasek explains why old CVEs are still hitting…
Read the Full Report →CISA added twelve vulnerabilities to KEV this week across two major dumps, including three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaws, a PaperCut auth bypass used by the Clop ransomware affiliate Lace Tempest, and the…
Read the Full Report →Weak passwords and reused logins are still the front door most attackers walk through. The fix isn't complicated, but it does take a plan. If your team is…
Read the Full Report →Jordan Polasek breaks down the Ivanti EPMM RCE (CVE-2026-6973) formally added to CISA KEV this week, the new Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN authentication bypass (CVE-2026-42897), and why eight months of weekly recaps now read…
Read the Full Report →Forty-one percent of SMB cyberattacks in 2025 were AI-driven. Jordan Polasek breaks down what AI-assisted phishing actually looks like in Texas small business environments, why traditional anti-phishing training is…
Read the Full Report →CISA added two vulnerabilities to KEV this week — Langflow (an LLM workflow builder) and Trend Micro Apex One. Jordan Polasek explains what each one means for Texas SMBs, why \
Read the Full Report →CISA added Drupal Core CVE-2026-9082 to KEV today after exploitation began within days of the patch. The May 20 Microsoft Defender double, the May 14 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass (covered by…
Read the Full Report →After two manic weeks at CISA, this week's KEV addition was a single Microsoft Defender access-control flaw. Jordan Polasek explains why boring weeks are good for Texas SMBs — and what to do with the spare cycles.
Read the Full Report →As Jordan Polasek, Founder of BVTech LLC, I've witnessed firsthand how a single compromised password can devastate a business. Over my two decades in IT and
Read the Full Report →Meet Jordan Polasek: The Technology Professional Behind BVTech LLC I'm Jordan Polasek, and for two decades, I've been helping businesses across Texas nav
Read the Full Report →There is a particular sting to this one: Microsoft told everybody a SharePoint bug was probably not worth worrying about — and then attackers started…
Read the Full Report →At some point every growing business hits the same wall: your technology needs more attention than someone can give it "on the side." The question is…
Read the Full Report →Your team gets an email that looks like it's from your bank, your vendor, or even your boss. It asks for a wire transfer, a password reset, or a quick…
Read the Full Report →The email looks legit. It's from your bank, your vendor, or even someone claiming to be you. It asks you to click a link, confirm a password, or wire…
Read the Full Report →Cyber insurance used to be easy. You filled out a one-page form, checked a few boxes, and got a policy. Those days are gone. In 2026, insurers are asking…
Read the Full Report →Ransomware isn't a big-company problem anymore. Attackers now automate their scans, hunting for any business with weak defenses and money to lose. If you…
Read the Full Report →The tool you used to build your website — the draganddrop page builder that let you lay out your homepage without writing a line of code — has quietly…
Read the Full Report →There is a specific kind of unsettling news in this business: a flaw not in some obscure addon, but in the antivirus that ships inside Windows itself —…
Read the Full Report →There is a specific kind of appliance in a lot of business networks that almost nobody thinks about until it breaks: the load balancer that sits out…
Read the Full Report →There is a strange twist in security work: sometimes the update that protects you is also the one that can knock your own people offline. The Windows…
Read the Full Report →There is a particular sting to this kind of flaw: it lives in the software that runs your publicfacing web applications — the forms, portals, and internal…
Read the Full Report →Modern businesses in Sugar Land, Texas are discovering the transformative power of integrated VoIP cameras smart entry systems to enhance security and stre
Read the Full Report →There's a special kind of uneasy that comes with this one. The breakin didn't come through a phishing email or a weak password — it came through the very…
Read the Full Report →Meet Jordan Polasek: Founder and Managing Partner of BVTech LLC When Comal County small businesses need reliable IT support, they turn to Jordan Polasek, t
Read the Full Report →Starting BVTech LLC wasn't just a business decision for me—it was a calling. After 13 years in the IT industry, I realized that businesses across Texas, fr
Read the Full Report →When San Antonio business owners tell me they've been burned by IT providers who overpromise and underdeliver, I understand their frustration completely. T
Read the Full Report →Your Wi-Fi network is the front door to your entire business. If it's wide open — or barely locked — everything behind it is exposed: customer records,…
Read the Full Report →There is a special kind of quiet danger in this line of work: not a new hole punched in your front door, but the discovery that someone already made a…
Read the Full Report →There is a new kind of breakin that needs no bad link, no opened attachment, and no wrong click from you or your team. It only needs your AI assistant to…
Read the Full Report →June 22, 2026 weekly cybersecurity report from Jordan Polasek of BVTech LLC: CVE-2026-42271, a command-injection flaw in the BerriAI LiteLLM AI gateway, hits its CISA KEV deadline today — the latest sign that AI…
Read the Full Report →CVE-2026-20253 is the first Splunk vulnerability ever added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — a critical missing-authentication flaw in Splunk Enterprise with a June 21, 2026 federal deadline. What it…
Read the Full Breakdown →Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its first publicly available Mythos-class model, with safeguards that block high-risk cybersecurity and biology queries. What a frontier AI model that can find software vulnerabilities…
Read Jordan's Take →Chrome's fifth zero-day of 2026 — CVE-2026-11645 in the V8 engine — is exploited in the wild and on CISA's KEV list. What it is, why updating Chrome isn't enough until you relaunch, and the rest of the June 9 KEV…
Read the Full Breakdown →Data poisoning is one of the defining security stories of 2026 — and for once the little guy sets the trap. Plus the year's real breaches, the new agentic-AI attack surface, AI governance, and our free 67-page 2026–2027…
Read It & Download the Free Report →Jordan Polasek breaks down the cybersecurity events of April 1–5, 2026: the Claude Code leak (and the malware campaign that followed), Chrome CVE-2026-5281 WebGPU zero-day, the Coruna iOS exploit kit, and what it all…
Read Full Recap →Jordan Polasek breaks down three critical CVEs added to the CISA KEV catalog this week — CVE-2026-5281 (Chrome Dawn WebGPU), CVE-2026-3055 (Citrix NetScaler), and the TrueConf Client integrity flaw. Remediation steps…
Read Jordan's Analysis →I'm Jordan Polasek, Founder of BVTech LLC, and after 13 years in cybersecurity and IT, I've seen too many businesses fall victim to preventable cyber attac
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