All Things Tech

Between August and December of 2022, a former TD Bank employee held onto access to the bank's systems and used it to view and share sensitive customer information: names, birth dates, account numbers, and transaction records. The bank didn't catch it until months later. Customers found out even later than that, when notification letters started arriving in January 2025....

Somewhere in your office right now, someone is probably using an AI tool you don't know about. Maybe it's a project manager pasting a client contract into ChatGPT to shorten it. Maybe it's someone in accounts payable uploading a spreadsheet of vendor invoices to get a quick summary. Maybe it's a new hire in sales who dumped a list of prospect names and notes into an AI...

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 enough that we wanted to break it down for you in detail. If it can land in our inbox, it can land in yours....

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, or a building floods, and the business discovers the hard way that having backup files sitting somewhere is...