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...
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...
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 slo...
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 ...
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, partic...
Australia’s new smart device cybersecurity rules started on 4 March 2026. They set minimum security standards for many connected consumer devices, including products such as smart cameras, smart TVs, smart watc...
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 th...
Browser add-ons have a funny reputation. They feel “small”. A quick install. A tiny productivity boost. A harmless little helper that lives in your toolbar.But in practice, a browser extension is more like a mi...
Ransomware isn’t a jump scare. It’s a slow build.In many cases, it begins days, or even weeks, before encryption, with something mundane, like a login that never should have succeeded.That’s why an effective ra...
Most small businesses aren’t breached because they have no security at all. They’re breached because a single stolen password becomes a master key to everything else.That’s the flaw in the old “castle-and-moat”...