Alert: A clever new type of ransomware attack

It seems like we’re talking about cyber scams a lot at the moment. And now there’s another new trick you need to be aware of. Cyber criminals are smart. They’re forever coming up with new ways to infiltrate your devices and networks to access your valuable data. Fortunately, the defence weapons continue to get stronger and stronger to help keep … Read More

OneDrive or SharePoint? Where Your Business Files Should Live

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Summary: If your business uses Microsoft 365, you have both OneDrive and SharePoint, and files usually end up scattered across them with no clear rule. OneDrive is for your own work, and SharePoint is for files the team shares. Getting this right makes files easier to find, safer when someone leaves, and easier to recover if something goes wrong. If … Read More

Is Your Business Website a Security Risk?

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Summary: Most small-business websites run on WordPress, and the biggest risk is usually old plugins that nobody has updated. Attackers scan the web for these known weak spots and use the sites they find to spread malware, post spam, or steal what visitors type into forms. Keeping the site and its plugins updated, and knowing who is responsible for that, … Read More

Why You Should Scroll Past the First Result on Google

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Summary: 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 can avoid nearly all of it by skipping the sponsored … Read More

How to Spot a Scam Email Now That They Look Real

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Summary: 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 catch them now is to look at what an email … Read More

What to Do in Case of a Cyberattack (Step by Step)

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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. This post is the step-by-step plan, plus where to report … Read More

What Are Passkeys, and Should Your Business Use Them?

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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 on the real site and there’s no password to steal … Read More

Still on Windows 10? Here’s Why You’re Putting Your Business at Risk

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Article 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 and cyber insurance. You have three options: upgrade eligible PCs … Read More

Who Can See What Your AI Note-Taker Records?

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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 on their own servers and may use it to improve … Read More

How to Stop Scammers from Sending Emails in Your Company’s Name

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Article 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 tell receiving mail servers to reject the ones that didn’t. … Read More

QR Code Scams: What They Are and How to Protect Your Business

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Article 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 onto a personal phone that sits outside the company’s security. … Read More