Editorial Policy: How JPert Researches and Checks Facts

Who writes and reviews Chronicles

Every article is reviewed and approved by Umair Akhtar, Founder and President of JPert INC, before it is published. Umair has more than 15 years of enterprise IT and security experience. JPert is a managed IT and cybersecurity company based in Vienna, Virginia. We do not publish sponsored content, and no vendor pays to be mentioned.

How we write and review

Every draft is treated as unchecked until it is verified against the official sources below. A person checks every fact, link, number and headline before anything is published.

Where our facts come from

Source type	Examples	How we use it
Official sources	CISA alerts and its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, FBI IC3, the FTC, a software maker’s own security bulletin, a company’s own breach notice, government filings	Can support a fact on their own
Reputable trade press	Established cybersecurity news outlets	Named in the text; a claim backed by only one is hedged or left out
Not used as fact	Ransomware gang leak sites, social media posts, AI summaries	Never cited as proof

• We name a breached organization only when an official source confirms it, such as the organization’s own notice or a regulator’s filing. Criminal groups sometimes list the wrong victims.
• We say a flaw is “actively exploited” only when CISA or the software maker says so.
• We link to every source, write summaries in our own words, quote no more than a sentence, and do not reuse other publishers’ photos.

Our fact-check before publishing

1. Every link opens and says what we say it does.
2. Every fact traces to an official source, or two reputable outlets named in the text.
3. Vulnerability IDs, product versions and patch details match the official record.
4. Every news item is current, not an old story.
5. Headlines, summaries and image descriptions are checked too.
6. No hype. Every article ends with clear, practical steps.

Dates, updates and old news

Each article shows when it was published and, if it changed in a meaningful way, when it was last updated. We never change a date for a cosmetic edit. When the facts behind an alert change, we add a dated “Update” note at the top. Older news stays online at the same address so links keep working, with a note when its details may be out of date.

Corrections

Typos are fixed as soon as we see them. Factual errors are checked against the official source and corrected in the article the same business day. Serious errors are fixed or removed right away and corrected anywhere we shared the article, including social media. Read more on our corrections page. To report an error, use our contact form or call 703-576-8200.