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QR Code Scams: What They Are and How to Protect Your Business
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. Microsoft reported a 146% rise in QR code phishing during the first quarter of 2026. QR codes are part of normal business now.
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Jul 106 min read


How to Stop Scammers from Sending Emails in Your Company’s Name
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 messages that don’t. The catch is that DMARC only protects you when it’s set to “quarantine” or “reject,” and many businesses leave it on “none,” which monit
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Jul 96 min read


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 on their own servers and may use it to improve their AI. Some also auto-join meetings from your calendar without anyone pressing record. Before you let someone into a clie
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Jul 95 min read


Why Data Retention Policies Matter More Than You Think
Most people think that it’s important to keep old files. Whether it’s a personal keepsake or a document you use once at work, many believe they might need that old email again.
Did you know that keeping information forever can create just as many risks as deleting it too soon?
That is why organizations have data retention policies
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Jul 82 min read


Could Your Phone Be Part of a Botnet?
When people think about cybercrime, they often picture hackers breaking into computers or stealing passwords. What many people do not realize is that hackers also like to steal something else: Your handheld devices.
Now, bad actors don’t always want the phone itself but rather its processing power and internet connection.
If malware infects your phone, tablet, or computer, attackers can secretly add it to something called a botnet.
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Jul 73 min read

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