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06/09/2026

How to Spot a Scam Email Now That They Look Real

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 is asking you to do, because the writing no longer gives anything away. For years, the advice for spotting a scam email was simple: look for bad spelling and clumsy grammar. A real bank or supplier writes properly, the thinking went, […]

How to Spot a Scam Email Now That They Look Real 5th September 2026 Cybersecurity No Comments 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 A...

31/08/2026

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. This post is the step-by-step plan, plus where to report an attack in the US, UK, and Australia. If a cyberattack hits your business, what you do in the first hour really matters. It’s also the easiest time to make a costly mistake, like turning off the wrong machine, deleting evidence, […]

What to Do in Case of a Cyberattack (Step by Step) 30th August 2026 Cybersecurity No Comments 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 th...

30/06/2026

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. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches involve the human element. Not a zero-day exploit. Not a brute-force attack on a hardened system. Human behavior, in the course of an ordinary working day. For businesses running cloud-based workflows across multiple devices, the personal and professional overlap is now the rule. Understanding where that overlap creates risk is no longer optional. It […]

Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security Risk 30th June 2026 Cybersecurity No Comments 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 slow...

26/06/2026

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 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 your device’s built-in security instead of a shared secret. It is practical, it is already supported by most major platforms, and the business case is […]

What is Passkey Migration and How Can It Help Your Team Eliminate Passwords? 25th June 2026 New Technology No Comments 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,...

20/06/2026

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. Three months later, those sessions are still active. This is how zombie accounts form. nNot through negligence, but through an offboarding process built around corporate IT assets that no longer reflects how people actually use software. The average company now runs more […]

15/06/2026

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 efficiency. The practical result is the opposite. Machines that drift from baseline, infections that spread before they are caught, and remediation tickets nobody planned for. Revoking […]

Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support Tickets 15th June 2026 IT Management No Comments 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.....

11/06/2026

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 make fraud difficult regardless of how convincing it looks. Why AP Teams Are in the Crosshairs Accounts payable sits at the intersection […]

Is Your Invoice a Deepfake? Securing Your Accounts Payable Process Against Voice and Email Cloning 10th June 2026 Cybersecurity No Comments 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 em...

05/06/2026

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. Rather than stealing passwords for later use, these attacks silently hijack an already-authenticated session in real time. MFA remains a core control, and getting it implemented correctly is still a critical first step for any business. But AiTM attacks exploit something MFA was […]

Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks: How Phishing Sites Steal Your Active Login 5th June 2026 Cybersecurity No Comments 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 surpris...

30/05/2026

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. That’s the core of session cookie hijacking. The attacker isn’t “cracking” MFA. They’re skipping it by replaying your already authenticated session. This isn’t a reason […]

The “Session Cookie” Hijack: Why MFA Can’t Always Save You 30th May 2026 Cybersecurity No Comments 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...