Cybersecurity Blog
Microsoft published its 2026 Digital Defense Report this week, drawing on more than 165 trillion daily security observations across its global infrastructure. The report covers a 12-month period from July 2025 through June 2026, and the numbers have direct implications for how small businesses think…
The National Cybersecurity Alliance, working with CISA, surveyed 1,000 small business leaders across 10 industries. The results describe a false sense of security that’s remarkably consistent across small businesses of every size and industry. The study found that 86% of small businesses feel confident about…
Most of the security advice you’ve heard about protecting your Microsoft 365 accounts includes using a strong password and turning on MFA. That combination stops the vast majority of credential-based attacks, and it’s still good advice. EvilTokens is a good reason to understand where that…
McKesson is one of the largest healthcare companies in the United States. It distributes pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics nationwide. Like most companies of its size, the data behind all of is stored in enterprise cloud platforms. The recent breach contains…
If your business uses any identity or age verification service, you should know about the IDScan.net breach. Not just as news, but as a direct example of how third-party vendors can be a risk for your organization. Here’s What Happened A dark web identity-theft…
We don’t usually write about news that’s still developing, but what came out of Black Hat 2026 last month is directly relevant to any business evaluating AI tools, working with AI vendors, or considering where AI fits within their operations. Let’s take a look at…
Six months into 2026, the breach numbers were already worse than last year. And last year was a record from the year before. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nonprofit that tracks publicly reported breaches and assists victims of identity theft, U.S.…
Most small businesses run antivirus software and have a firewall in place. But there’s a good chance someone along the way let you walk away thinking those two things had you covered. And if you’ve had a nagging feeling they might have oversold it a…
If someone asked you right now what the most common way is that small businesses get breached, what would you say? A lot of people guess ransomware, or maybe a sophisticated hack of some kind. The answer is usually a lot more ordinary than that,…
In 2019, Capital One discovered that 106 million customer records had been exposed through a single misconfigured AWS firewall rule. Cloud providers like AWS and Azure are excellent at securing the infrastructure they operate. This includes the physical data centers, the hardware, and the underlying…
We recently logged in to Google Analytics and noticed something that didn’t belong. A domain we’d never heard of (trafficheap.cc) showed up in our page list like it was part of our website. As a cybersecurity company, we went on high alert immediately. Our first…
You already know cybersecurity matters. You’ve read the articles. You’ve probably had the conversation with your IT person or your insurance agent at least once. And you may have even opened a tab with some security checklist at some point, fully intending to get back…
