Fortinet now charging a $200 “Handling Fee”
About the $200 FortiGate Handling Fee We’ve been using FortiGate firewalls for years—the 30, 60, and 80 series have been our go-to for SMB customers. As the FortiGate 60E reaches…
Read moreApril 2026 News & Updates
CTC News Industry News Updates Microsoft released patches for approximately 90 vulnerabilities in the April 2026 Patch Tuesday update. This includes several critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Windows,…
Read moreBut my computer can’t *DO* Windows 11, what can I do?
On 14 October 2025, Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 10 and, even though the upgrade to Windows 11 was free, Windows 11 won’t run on a lot of otherwise…
Read moreFebruary 2026 News & Updates
Updates Microsoft only released around 50 updates _in the February Patch Tuesday release_ but, a) that release includes at least six actively exploited zero day vulnerabilities AND there have been…
Read morePossible Microsoft 365 Outage
We don’t have any details as of the time of this post but we are currently experiencing issues with inbound mail from Microsoft 365. We have confirmed that that mail…
Read moreMajor issue at Cloudflare impacting a number of sites and services (X, ChatGPT, Downdetector)
According to multiple sources, CloudFlare has acknowledged a what it is calling a “major issue affecting its Global Network” causing widespread outages on sites and platforms like downdetector.com, X, Amazon,…
Read moreMicrosoft quietly (but aggressively) removing Outlook Classic and replacing it with Outlook New
Microsoft has been aggressively replacing Outlook Classic with Outlook New on newer / newly deployed computers. Outlook Classic is still supported at least 2029 for users with perpetual licenses or…
Read moreMicrosoft 365 / Azure / Entra ID Outages
We have had a number of client sites with odd issues this morning, most surrounding logging in and / or accessing the services. This is on the tails of a…
Read moreAugust 2025 News & Updates
Updates Microsoft dropped updates for more than 100 bugs and at least 13 of those bugs are rated critical. Some of the vulnerabilities were in Exchange server which, with the…
Read moreMalicious email with document attached
We are seeing a pretty significant spike in malicious spam email (“malspam”) using a relatively new technique that’s bypassing most SPAM filtering tools. The emails are very basic and have…
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