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Understanding the FTC Safeguards Rule and What It Means for Small Businesses
If your business handles customer financial information, there is a good chance the FTC Safeguards Rule applies to you. Many small and mid-sized businesses are surprised to learn this because the rule is often associated with banks and large financial institutions.
In reality, the scope is much broader.
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3 days ago3 min read
Everyday Cyber Traps You Might Be Overlooking
Most cyberattacks do not begin with sophisticated hacking tools. Most start with something simple, like leaving a USB drive in a parking lot, a QR code on a flyer, or a free phone charging station at an airport.
These everyday conveniences are increasingly used as delivery systems for cyberattacks. They rely on curiosity, urgency, or convenience rather than technical skill.
Understanding how these methods work is one of the easiest ways to protect yourself and your organiz
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6 days ago3 min read
Hidden Dangers of “Free” Charging Stations
Your phone is on low battery. It’s been a long day. There’s no outlet in sight.
Finally, you see it: A free USB charging station. It’s right there at the airport, hotel lobby, or conference center.
It feels like a lifesaver…but it’s also a huge security risk.
Although public charging stations are convenient, they also pose a threat many people never consider: someone could steal your data through the same cable that powers your device.
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May 13 min read
Deepfake Videos and Why Verification Matters
Not long ago, if you saw a video of someone speaking, then you trusted it was real. That is no longer a safe assumption.
Artificial intelligence now allows criminals to create highly realistic deepfake videos — fake videos that convincingly show real people saying or doing things that never actually happened. These are not low-quality internet pranks. They are sophisticated social engineering tools used to commit fraud, spread misinformation, and pressure employees into maki
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Apr 283 min read
Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security Risk
Most 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.
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Apr 284 min read
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 that does not require users to memorize anything.
Passkey migration is the process of moving from traditional passwords to passkeys: a form of phishing-resistant authentication that uses you
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Apr 284 min read
The “Zombie” SaaS Audit: Finding the 3 Apps Your Former Employees Still Access
Someone 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 CRM access they still have from two roles ago.
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Apr 283 min read
Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support Tickets
The 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 install software, modify system settings, and override security controls) are given to end users far more often than the risk warrants.
The usual reason is efficienc
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Apr 284 min read
Is Your Invoice a Deepfake? Securing Your Accounts Payable Process Against Voice and Email Cloning
It’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 has made these attacks harder to detect. The question for AP teams is no longer whether they can identify suspicious requests. It is whether the processes around payments
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Apr 284 min read
Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks: How Phishing Sites Steal Your Active Login
You 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 exactly how Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing attacks work.
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Apr 284 min read
The “Session Cookie” Hijack: Why MFA Can’t Always Save You
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 you belong there. If an attacker steals that wristband, they may not need to beat your MFA prompt at all.
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Apr 284 min read
The “Legacy Debt” Audit: Identifying the 3 Oldest Risks in Your Server Room
The most dangerous thing in a server room is often the phrase, “Don’t touch that.”
It’s usually said with a half-joke and a grimace. It refers to the old box that “still works”, runs something important, and has survived so many fixes and workarounds that nobody feels confident changing it anymore
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Apr 284 min read
The “Backup Exit” Strategy: Can You Move Your Data Without the Vendor’s Help?
When you first sign up for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, everything is designed to feel effortless.
The problem is that the first real test of a SaaS relationship isn’t the onboarding. It’s the exit.
For many small businesses, the front door is wide open, but the emergency exit is bolted shut: exports are incomplete, key data sits in proprietary formats, and leaving requires expensive vendor help.
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Apr 284 min read
Micro-SaaS Vetting: The 5-Minute Security Check for Browser Add-ons
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 sometimes access the same cloud apps your business runs on all day.
That’s why a browser extension security check matters.
Not because every extensio
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Apr 286 min read
LinkedIn “Social Engineering”: Protecting Your Staff from Fake Recruitment Scams
A fake recruiter message is one of the cleanest social engineering tricks around because it doesn’t look like a trick.
That’s why LinkedIn recruitment scams work so well inside real businesses.
They don’t arrive as malware. They arrive as a normal conversation that nudges someone toward one small action: click this link, open this file, “verify” this detail, move the chat to a different app.
A few simple checks, a couple of hard-stop rules, and an easy way to report suspi
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Apr 284 min read
“Clean Desk” 2.0: Securing Your Home Office from Physical Data Leaks
In the traditional office, a “Clean Desk” policy was a simple habit: shred the sensitive stuff, lock it away, and don’t leave passwords where someone can see them.
In 2026, the same idea still matters, but the “desk” has changed.
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Apr 284 min read
The “Insider Threat” You Overlooked: Proper Employee Offboarding
Imagine a former employee, maybe someone who didn’t leave on the best of terms. Their login still works, their company email still forwards messages, and they can still access the project management tool, cloud storage, and customer database. This isn’t a hypothetical scenario; it’s a daily reality for many small businesses that treat offboarding as an afterthought.
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Feb 114 min read
Zero-Trust for Small Business: No Longer Just for Tech Giants
Think about your office building. You probably have a locked front door, security staff, and maybe even biometric checks. But once someone is inside, can they wander into the supply closet, the file room, or the CFO’s office? In a traditional network, digital access works the same way; a single login often grants broad access to everything. The Zero Trust security model challenges this approach, treating trust itself as a vulnerability.
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Feb 114 min read
The Quiet Risk of “Just Helping Out” at Work
Many times, security incidents don’t start with malicious intent. They start with someone trying to be helpful.
Has something similar happened to you? A coworker locks themselves out of an account and needs access right now. A vendor can’t download a file, so you send it through another channel, like text. Maybe a teammate calls out sick, so you share your login with the temp who fills in for them, “just for today.”
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Jan 222 min read
The “Deepfake CEO” Scam: Why Voice Cloning Is the New Business Email Compromise (BEC)
The phone rings, and it’s your boss. The voice is unmistakable, with the same flow and tone you’ve come to expect. They’re asking for a favor: an urgent wire transfer to lock in a new vendor contract, or sensitive client information that’s strictly confidential. Everything about the call feels normal, and your trust kicks in immediately. It’s hard to say no to your boss, and so you begin to act.
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Jan 195 min read
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