Here is a question I ask new clients, and it usually gets a long pause. When someone leaves your business, what happens to the files they were working on? The answer depends entirely on where those files lived,...
Your website is one of those things you set up once and then stop thinking about. It sits there, it shows your hours and your phone number, and nothing about it looks broken. That is exactly why a neglected web...
For about twenty years the advice for catching a scam email was the same. Look for bad spelling. Look for clumsy grammar. A real bank or a real supplier writes properly, so a message full of mistakes was probab...
The invoice looked ordinary. A PDF attachment, a familiar vendor name, a polite note about updated payment details. Halfway down the page sat a QR code with three words beside it: scan to pay. That code is quis...
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 that person’s tenure, during employe...
The urgent payment request arrives from the CEO. The writing style is exactly right. The email references the current project, the correct vendor, and a plausible reason the wire needs to go out today. There...
The most dangerous thing in a server room is often a phrase, not a device: “Don’t touch that.” It’s usually said with a half-joke and a grimace. It refers to the old box that still works...
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. In practice, a browser extension is more like a micro-...
A fake recruiter message is one of the cleanest social engineering tricks around — because it doesn’t look like a trick. LinkedIn recruitment scams don’t arrive as malware. They arrive as a normal conversation,...
At home, security incidents don’t look like dramatic movie hacks. They look like stepping away from a laptop during a delivery. Leaving a screen unlocked while grabbing something from another room. Letting some...