Galactic Research: Articles & Insights
Threat Thursday: August 20th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
AI Security
Part 2: The Security Controls Behind a Safe AI Deployment
From the Map to the Hike: The Four Controls and the Client Conversations Behind Them This is Part 2 in a series that covers your AI enablement plan. Part 1 is here if you want the full map. The Little ...
Ten of Eleven AI Coding Agents Failed a Decades-Old Attack
What GuardFall Tells Us About Where AI Security Controls Need to Live Picture a security guard stationed at the entrance of a building. Their job is to check IDs. They're good at it, fast and consistent, and the building's occupants ...
Perfect AI Guardrails Are Impossible. That's Not an Excuse for Ignoring Them.
What a NIST Mathematician Proved, Why the Internet Got it Wrong, and What Your AI Security Program Should Look Like Years ago, running an MSSP, I had a vendor pitch us a next-gen firewall on a single promise: one hundred ...
Threat Intelligence
Threat Thursday: August 20th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
Threat Thursday: August 13th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
Threat Thursday: August 6th, 2026
Welcome to Threat Thursday, Galactic’s weekly threat intelligence roundup. Every Thursday, we cover the cybersecurity stories that matter most for protecting organizations from emerging threats, and we break each one down into what happened, what it could mean for your ...
Security Education
The Browser Became the Endpoint. Your Security Stack Didn’t Notice.
An employee clicks a box that says “verify you’re human.” A prompt tells them to press a couple of keys, so they do. What they have actually done is paste and run a command that a script slipped onto their clipboard the moment they ...
Vulnerabilities Are Now the #1 Way In. The Window to Fix Them Is Closing.
Most of the time, I didn't break into a network so much as let myself in through something with a fix already out (just not installed yet): the VPN concentrator three versions behind, the firewall with a known vulnerability fixed ...
Your OSINT Reality Check: Here’s What an Attacker Is Finding in 30 Minutes or Less
Today’s connected, AI-driven digital ecosystem has made it easier than ever to build a professional brand, network with peers, and share ideas with a wider audience. It’s opened doors for businesses that simply didn't exist before: new customers, new partnerships, ...
Strategy & Leadership
An Open Letter From Your Cyber Risk Advisors
After the Water Attacks Last month, attackers reached into water treatment plants across a dozen states and started moving the controls. Some of them found out what happens when you do. I've been thinking about what to say to the ...
Building Trust in Executive Relationships: Lessons from King Lear
A Framework for Establishing the Kind of Trust that Survives Budget Season Imagine the curtain going up and a group of players act out the opening scenes of Shakespeare's King Lear, just for you. An aging king sits in his ...
Your Jokes Were Funny. They Still Didn't Renew.
How MSPs Build the Kind of Client Rapport That Survives a Budget Review You walked out of the meeting feeling good. The handshake was firm, the small talk landed, and you even got a laugh with the printer joke. You ...
All Articles
Windows Makes Changes To Avoid Finger Command Security Vulnerability
Hackers use a variety of techniques to infiltrate systems and make off with data, but one of the more effective approaches is to use the system against itself. There are a number ...
Bluetooth Vulnerability Could Affect The Majority Of Devices
Do you have a smartphone, tablet, laptop or a "smart" device in your home? Or perhaps the better question is, how many of those devices do you have? Whatever your number is, ...
Is Your Patch Strategy Working?
Late last week the US Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to all government agencies to patch a recently discovered Windows Server vulnerability. Urgency ...
Update Adobe Media Encoder Immediately With Current Patch
Adobe took the unusual step of releasing an out of band patch to address a trio of serious security issues in Adobe Media Encoder. The program is used by tens of thousands ...
Chrome Update Will Block Resource Intensive Ads
Are you a regular Chrome user? If so, you've got yet another reason to love the most popular browser in the world. Recently, Google announced the pending rollout of another new feature ...
Microsoft Adds Lists To Their Teams Communication Platform
One of the more common complaints people have about mobile devices is the fact that it's still harder than it should be to do certain kinds of work. Manipulating spreadsheets on a ...
Latest Windows 10 Update Fixes SSD Defrag Issue
Do you have a solid- state drive (SSD)? If so, you're probably aware that recent builds of Windows 10 have introduced an unexpected issue. It causes the automatic maintenance feature of the ...
Intel AMT Releases Security Update For Some Processors
Recently, Intel released a very important update designed to address nine separate security flaws in their chipsets as part of their September 2020 Platform Update. Of the flaws addressed by this fix, ...
Hackers Used Windows Theme Packs To Hack Passwords
Are you a fan of customizing your Windows experience via themes? If so, you're not alone. While it's true that themes aren't used by a majority of Windows users, they're still highly ...
Is Ransomware Targeting Your Backups?
When I think about backups, I’m taken back to the good old days when all we had to worry was making sure we’d be able to recover if something went wrong. The ...
Features Of The New Android 11 Phone
If you're an Android user and you're interested in getting the latest on offer from the company, Google has announced that they're ready to release Android 11 to the general public. As ...
Adobe Updates Some Of Their Products Due To Critical Issues
Adobe continues to have problems associated with JavaScript. As a consequence, they have released new patches for Experience Manager, InDesign, and Framemaker. Of these, the patch for Experience Manager is the largest, ...
