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You know your business needs multi-factor authentication, but chances are you see a lot of pushback from your employees because of how inconvenient it is for their work. In an effort to please everyone, you implement SMS authentication out of sheer convenience, but the innovation of SIM swapping means that this method of MFA is a vulnerability rather than a security solution. A hacker doesn’t need to steal your phone; they just need to trick a customer service representative at your mobile carrier to port your phone number to a new SIM card they control. If your second factor can be stolen so easily, what’s your business supposed to do?

How would you describe the ideal help desk solution? Most businesses and IT decision makers view it as an emergency button, a place where you go when you need help NOW. You might judge its value based on how often it’s utilized, and when it’s not used by your team, the help desk bill might not even feel worth it. But that’s only the case if your help desk is only reacting to broken things.

It’s known that baby toys can aid in all manner of developmental processes, so take a moment to imagine what the future of technology holds for toys. Will they continue in the same vein as toys that teach color recognition, teamwork, sharing, and creativity, or will they get even more wild and out of the box? Regardless, one thing is for certain: security challenges exist just on the horizon and will have to be addressed if parents want to keep their children safe.

By now, AI isn’t just a buzzword in the 2026 boardroom—it’s the plumbing. But as developers race to push the tech into uncharted territory, the line between "breakthrough" and "breakdown" has become razor-thin. Today’s story is a cautionary tale about the leap from AI that talks to AI that acts, and how a single developer’s viral hit accidentally birthed a multi-million dollar heist and a digital cult.

The most sophisticated firewall in the world cannot stop a human being from making a split-second mistake. Cybercriminals are not just hacking code; they are hacking your employees. By exploiting high-stress environments and the natural desire to be helpful, hackers create click-first, ask-later scenarios that can bypass your entire security stack in an instant.

If you asked your team what they remember from the last annual security compliance video, we bet they’d be hard-pressed to remember anything of importance. That’s because most small business security training is like going to the dentist; you go once a year, and only because you have to. The unfortunate reality is that most people are going about security training from the “annual compliance” perspective, which isn’t doing your business any favors, and more importantly, doesn’t change their behavior.

Traditional cybersecurity has long been built on a foundation of restriction and reprimand. However, treating employees as the weakest link creates a dangerous paradox: the more you monitor and scold your team, the higher your actual risk becomes.

We’ve all seen the Internet represented as an iceberg in images and videos explaining the deep web. The surface web—the part you use every day—is just the tip. Below that is the Deep Web (password-protected sites), and at the very bottom is the Dark Web, a hidden layer where anonymity is the primary currency. From a business perspective, the Dark Web isn’t just a scary place; it is a thriving marketplace for your company’s stolen assets.

As a cybersecurity professional, I've seen organizations of all sizes and sectors make a critical, often fatal, mistake: they wait for the water to boil. They operate under a reactive cybersecurity model, adopting the same slow, passive approach as the hapless subject of the boiled frog analogy.

There are a lot of threats out there, ranging from simple and annoying viruses to business-ending ransomware. Do you know how these threats end up on your network in the first place, and more importantly, how do you protect your network from these threats? Today, we’re exploring the various avenues a cybersecurity threat might take to install itself on your device, as well as what you can do about it.