Archive for author: Matthew Hinge

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Microsoft

Still on Windows 10? Here’s Why You’re Putting Your Business at Risk

Article Summary: Windows 10 reached the end of Microsoft support on October 14, 2025, which means it no longer gets security updates. The computers still work, but any new flaw found in Windows 10 will never be...

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AI

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 d...

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Cybersecurity

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 re...

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Cybersecurity

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 n...

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Cybersecurity

How Small Business Ransomware Attacks Work (And How to Protect Against Them)

Small businesses are the most common ransomware target by volume of incidents, even though many small business owners assume hackers focus on larger organizations. A 22-person company has enough revenue to be w...

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Business

How to Answer Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions Without Voiding Your Policy

If you have a cyber insurance renewal coming up, the application is probably longer than the one you filled in last time. It’s also more specific. Each new question maps to a control that, if missing, all...

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IT Management

Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding

By the time an employee hands in their notice, the decisions that will make their departure clean or messy have already been made. They were made in the first weeks of the person’s tenure, when nobody was...

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New Technology

How to Prepare Microsoft 365 Permissions for a Safe Copilot Rollout

A safe Microsoft Copilot rollout starts with a permissions audit before any trial license is enabled. Microsoft 365 Copilot retrieves files, emails, and chats using each user’s existing Microsoft 365 perm...

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Cybersecurity

Prompt Injection Explained: The Hidden AI Security Risk Facing Businesses Using Copilot, Chatbots, and AI Tools

A staff member asks Microsoft Copilot to summarise a document. A chatbot reviews a customer message. An AI assistant scans a shared inbox, a Teams thread, or a support ticket. To most people, this looks like...

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Microsoft

5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant

Microsoft has tightened several default settings in Microsoft 365 over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The problem is that legacy conf...