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Continue reading →: Why You Should Scroll Past the First Result on GoogleSummary: Scammers buy ads on Google and other search engines using the names of trusted brands and software, so their fake site shows up at the very top, above the real one. Click it and you can land on a fake page that steals your login or installs malware. You…
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Continue reading →: How to Spot a Scam Email Now That They Look RealSummary: Scammers now use AI to write their phishing emails, so the spelling and grammar mistakes that used to give them away are gone. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and the FBI both warn that AI makes these messages cleaner, more personal, and harder to spot. The way to…
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Continue reading →: What to Do in Case of a Cyberattack (Step by Step)Article Summary: If your business is hit by a cyberattack, the first hour matters. Disconnect the affected devices from the network instead of powering them off, call your IT provider by phone, and leave the evidence in place. If money was wired to a scammer, call your bank right away.…
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Continue reading →: What Are Passkeys, and Should Your Business Use Them?Article Summary: A passkey lets you sign in to an app or website using the same fingerprint, face, or PIN you use to unlock your phone or laptop, with no password to type. It’s built on a security standard called FIDO that can’t be phished, because the passkey only works…
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Continue reading →: Still on Windows 10? Here’s Why You’re Putting Your Business at RiskArticle Summary: Windows 10 reached the end of Microsoft support on October 14, 2025, which means it no longer gets security updates. The computers still work, but any new flaw found in Windows 10 will never be fixed, which makes them easier to attack and can cause problems with compliance…
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Continue reading →: Who Can See What Your AI Note-Taker Records?Article Summary: AI note-takers join your meetings, transcribe everything said, and save the recording and summary to the vendor’s servers. Who can see that recording depends on the tool. Some keep your data inside your own Microsoft or Google environment and never use it for training, while others store it…
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Continue reading →: How to Stop Scammers from Sending Emails in Your Company’s NameArticle Summary: Email spoofing is when a scammer sends a message that appears to come from your domain, often to trick your clients or staff into paying a fake invoice or changing banking details. Three DNS records (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) prove that a message really came from you and…
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Continue reading →: QR Code Scams: What They Are and How to Protect Your BusinessArticle Summary: A QR code scam, sometimes called quishing, hides a malicious web link inside a QR code. Because the link is buried in an image instead of written as text, it slips past the email filters that normally catch bad links, and scanning the code usually moves the victim…
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Continue reading →: How Small Business Ransomware Attacks Work (And How to Protect Against Them)Small businesses are the most common ransomware target by volume of incidents, even though many small business owners assume hackers focus on larger organizations. A 22-person company has enough revenue to be worth attacking, no dedicated security team to defend it, and a publicly traceable footprint that takes about an…
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Continue reading →: How to Answer Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions Without Voiding Your PolicyIf you have a cyber insurance renewal coming up, the application is probably longer than the one you filled in last time. It’s also more specific. Each new question maps to a control that, if missing, allowed a major 2023 or 2024 claim to escalate. The wording reflects how carriers…
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Continue reading →: Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy OffboardingBy the time an employee hands in their notice, the decisions that will make their departure clean or messy have already been made. They were made in the first weeks of the person’s tenure, when nobody was paying close attention because the new hire had just arrived and there were…
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Continue reading →: How to Prepare Microsoft 365 Permissions for a Safe Copilot RolloutA safe Microsoft Copilot rollout starts with a permissions audit before any trial license is enabled. Microsoft 365 Copilot retrieves files, emails, and chats using each user’s existing Microsoft 365 permissions. In most tenants, those permissions are broader than anyone has mapped, because access tends to accumulate across years of…
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Continue reading →: 5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your TenantMicrosoft has tightened several default settings in Microsoft 365 over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The problem is that legacy configurations stay in place. A setting changed for new tenants in 2024 doesn’t retroactively…
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Continue reading →: Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security RiskMost cyberattacks do not start with a sophisticated intrusion. They start with a click on a personal email, a reused password, or a file uploaded to a familiar cloud service because the approved option felt slower. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches involve the human…
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Continue reading →: What is Passkey Migration and How Can It Help Your Team Eliminate Passwords?Your team locks everything down with passwords. Some are strong, some are not, and most have been reused somewhere over the years. Every month, IT fields reset requests. Every year, the same breach reports list stolen credentials as the leading cause. There is now a more effective path, and it…
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Continue reading →: The “Zombie” SaaS Audit: Finding the 3 Apps Your Former Employees Still AccessSomeone leaves the company on a Friday. By Monday, their email account is disabled, and their laptop is back in the pile. What nobody checks is their login to the project management tool they signed up for in Q3, the cloud storage folder they shared with a contractor, or the…
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Continue reading →: Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support TicketsThe most time-consuming ticket in your queue is rarely a hardware failure. It’s the PC infection that started when a user installed something they shouldn’t have been able to. Or it’s the broken configuration left behind after someone changed a setting IT can’t trace. Local administrator rights (the ability to…
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Continue reading →: Is Your Invoice a Deepfake? Securing Your Accounts Payable Process Against Voice and Email CloningIt’s a statistic that sends a shiver down the backs of SME owners, managers and employees. According to the FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, business email compromise (BEC) cost US businesses more than $3 billion last year. This makes it one of the most financially damaging cybercrimes on record. AI…
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Continue reading →: Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks: How Phishing Sites Steal Your Active LoginYou click a link, sign in, approve the MFA prompt, and get on with your day. Completely unaware that someone else just logged into your account at the same moment. That scenario surprises many businesses, particularly those that rely on multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect cloud accounts. But this is…
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Continue reading →: The “Session Cookie” Hijack: Why MFA Can’t Always Save YouMFA is a strong front-door lock. But it’s not the only thing that decides whether someone can get in. After you sign in, your browser keeps you logged in using a session token (often stored as a cookie). It’s the digital version of a wristband at an event: once you’ve…
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