Article Summary: AI voice scams use copied voices to impersonate owners, colleagues, or suppliers. A familiar-sounding caller may ask your team to send money, change bank details, or share a sign-in code. Confirm these requests through a number you already trust, and keep the usual approval checks in place even when the caller sounds like […]
Article Summary: Treat every business social media account as a business system. Keep ownership and recovery details under company control, give each person their own access, require MFA, and remove former employees and agencies promptly. Review connected apps regularly and have a written recovery plan in case an account is compromised. Business social media accounts […]
Article Summary: Confirm that the notice is genuine, then ask whether your business was affected, what information was exposed, when the breach happened, and whether any passwords, access tokens, or connected systems need attention. Keep written records of the vendor’s answers and involve your IT provider, insurer, or legal adviser when needed. You’ve just found […]
Article Summary: Browser extensions can read confidential information on websites where they have the necessary access, including pages you open after signing in. Reviewing their publishers, permissions, and data collection helps you decide which tools are suitable for work. You can then remove unnecessary extensions, restrict website access where supported, and manage which new tools […]
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 […]
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 hour to research. What follows […]
MFA 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 been checked, the wristband proves […]
Browser add-ons have a funny reputation. They feel “small”. A quick install. A tiny productivity boost. A harmless little helper that lives in your toolbar. But in practice, a browser extension is more like a micro-SaaS vendor sitting inside your browser session. It can see what you see, interact with the pages you open, and […]
Ransomware isn’t a jump scare. It’s a slow build. In many cases, it begins days, or even weeks, before encryption, with something mundane, like a login that never should have succeeded. That’s why an effective ransomware defense plan is about more than deploying anti-malware. It’s about preventing unauthorized access from gaining traction. Here’s a five-step […]
Most small businesses aren’t breached because they have no security at all. They’re breached because a single stolen password becomes a master key to everything else. That’s the flaw in the old “castle-and-moat” model. Once someone gets past the perimeter, they can often move through the environment with far fewer restrictions than they should. And […]