In the spring of 2022, a small electronics manufacturer in Decatur, Illinois bought a cyber insurance policy. A few weeks later, ransomware hit one of their servers. They filed a claim expecting their insurer to step in. Instead, the insurer sued them. The company,...
Even an IT support company gets targeted. This week, someone tried to trick our team into wiring over twelve thousand dollars to a fake vendor, and they did it by combining two scams into one. We caught it before any money went out, but the attempt was convincing...
Most business owners assume that if their data is being backed up, they’re covered. It feels like a reasonable assumption. The backup job runs every night, a green checkmark shows up in some dashboard, and everyone moves on. Then a server fails, ransomware hits,...
Most employees have been trained to hesitate before clicking a suspicious link in an email. Far fewer have been trained to hesitate before scanning a QR code, even though a QR code is doing exactly the same thing: sending you to a web address. That gap in awareness is...
For years, the advice on phishing was simple. Look for bad grammar, check the sender’s email address, and never click a suspicious link. That advice still matters, but it no longer covers the threat. In 2026, the emails hitting business inboxes are grammatically...
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