AE Tech Design

10/10/2026

People reported losing $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, per the FTC. That's someone pretending to be your bank, a supplier or your boss to get money moved. Never act on an out-of-the-blue message. Call them back on a number you already have.

New data from the Federal Trade Commission reveal that people reported losing a staggering $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses increasing nearly three times since 2020.

10/09/2026

Police shut down SocGholish in June 2026, the fake 'your browser is out of date' pop-ups that infected thousands of businesses. They seized 106 servers and cleaned 15,000 hacked sites. The trick will come back, so teach your team: a real update never comes from a website pop-up.

SocGholish, an operation that's been delivering malware to users via fake software updates, has suffered a major blow.

10/08/2026

Everyone's downloading AI tools at the moment, and scammers have caught on.

Say someone on your team wants to try a new AI app. They search for it, click the top result, and end up on a page that looks like the real company's site. They download the app. It's fake, and it steals every password saved on their computer.

The fake sites are hard to spot because they copy the real ones closely, and the link is often an ad shown above the real website in the results.

Security firms have reported a lot more of this over the past year.

Only download software by going to the company's real website yourself, not by clicking an ad or a search result. If a page asks you to install something and you're not sure it's real, don't. And it helps to agree as a team on which AI tools you use, so people aren't installing unknown ones to try them out.

10/07/2026

Wednesday wouldn’t be complete without a little wondering! What’s the most frustrating thing about slow internet?

10/05/2026

Break time! Here’s your Monday mind vitamin.

10/04/2026

At least one of your team's work emails is probably already in a leaked password list. Go to https://bit.ly/3V3n9Xq and check. It's free. Anything that shows up, change that password now and anywhere else you reused it. Then ask your IT provider about dark web monitoring.

10/03/2026

That contract you emailed is sitting in someone else's inbox forever, and it can be forwarded to anyone. For anything sensitive, share a link from OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox that only the named person can open, set it to expire, and switch it off when they're done.

10/02/2026

Google put out an emergency Chrome update in June 2026 for a flaw attackers were already using. Just visiting a bad web page is enough to get hit, no clicking needed. Click the three dots, Help, About Google Chrome, then Relaunch. Updates only take effect once you restart.

Google released security updates for 74 Chrome vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-11645, a high-severity V8 out-of-bounds memory access flaw.

10/01/2026

That slow old laptop your employee is putting up with is costing you more than a new one would.

It's easy to treat a computer as something you only replace when it dies. As long as it still switches on, a new one feels like money you don't need to spend.

Every slow start-up in the morning, every wait for a file to open, every frozen call someone has to drop and rejoin is a couple of minutes gone.

It happens over and over, all day, to everyone stuck on an old machine. Add it up across a year and it's well past the price of a new laptop.

And that's before the frustration, or the fact that old machines stop getting security updates, which makes a slow computer a risky one too.

You don't have to replace everything at once. Just look at how old your team's computers are.

Around the three or four year mark is usually where a machine starts costing you more in lost time than a replacement would.

Ask your staff which computers drive them mad and they'll tell you straight away.

Your IT provider can also point out which ones are near the end of their supported life, since those tend to be both the slowest and the least safe.

09/30/2026

Let’s see where your thoughts take you today. Do you trust influencers’ tech recommendations?