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By default, a Microsoft account will accept a login attempt from anywhere in the world. Most attacks on Microsoft accoun...
09/16/2026

By default, a Microsoft account will accept a login attempt from anywhere in the world.

Most attacks on Microsoft accounts come from overseas, from automated tools trying stolen passwords by the thousand. If your business only works in one or two countries, there's no reason to allow a login from anywhere else.

There's a setting in Microsoft 365 called Conditional Access that lets you block any login from outside the countries you operate in. Someone trying your password from the other side of the world is turned away, even if the password is right.

It won't stop everything, and a determined attacker can route through your country to get past it. But it blocks the flood of automated attempts from places you'll never deal with, and that's most of what you're up against.

You'll need the right Microsoft plan, and it's set up in the admin area, so ask your IT provider to turn it on and set the countries you work in.

When you log into a new tool with your Google account instead of making a fresh password, you're tying that tool to your...
09/09/2026

When you log into a new tool with your Google account instead of making a fresh password, you're tying that tool to your Google login. Do it enough times and one account controls all of them.

It's quick, so most people click it without thinking.

The trouble starts if someone gets into that Google account. They get your email, and every app you logged into with it, in one go.

Google itself is a risk here too. If it ever suspends or locks your account, you can lose all those apps at once, and getting a Google account back is famously hard.

So, for anything your business relies on, give it its own login and password, with two factor turned on.

And put strong security on the Google account itself, since so much now runs through it.

Everyone's downloading AI tools at the moment, and scammers have caught on. Say someone on your team wants to try a new ...
09/02/2026

Everyone's downloading AI tools at the moment, and scammers have caught on.

Say someone on your team wants to try a new AI app. They search for it, click the top
result, and end up on a page that looks like the real company's site. They download
the app. It's fake, and it steals every password saved on their computer.

The fake sites are hard to spot because they copy the real ones closely, and the link is
often an ad shown above the real website in the results.

Security firms have reported a lot more of this over the past year.

Only download software by going to the company's real website yourself, not by
clicking an ad or a search result. If a page asks you to install something and you're
not sure it's real, don't. And it helps to agree as a team on which AI tools you use, so
people aren't installing unknown ones to try them out.

Microsoft has installed Copilot on business computers automatically. It's worth getting your files in order before you ...
08/19/2026

Microsoft has installed Copilot on business computers automatically.

It's worth getting your files in order before you use it.

Copilot can see any file the person using it can already open.

In most businesses, that's a lot more than it should be.

Files get shared with "everyone" for convenience. Folders get opened up for a project and never closed again. It piles up over the years, and no one notices, because no one goes looking through it all.

Once Copilot is in the mix, people don't have to go looking. They ask a question, and it answers using anything it's allowed to see, including files that were left open to the whole company by mistake.

So, before you let the team use it, get someone to check your file permissions, starting with HR and finance. People should only be able to see what they need to.

If you open an email attachment that looks like an image and it asks you to log in, close it. There's a phishing trick g...
08/12/2026

If you open an email attachment that looks like an image and it asks you to log in, close it.

There's a phishing trick going around this year that hides inside picture files, and it gets past the filters most businesses rely on.

It uses a file type called SVG. It's an image format, but unlike a normal photo, it can carry code inside it.

Someone double-clicks the attachment expecting a picture. Instead it opens in their browser, runs, and sends them to a fake Microsoft login page built for their exact email.

The email system lets it through because, as far as it can tell, it's just an image. Researchers flagged a wave of these in early June.

A picture should never send you to a login screen. So if you open an attachment and it asks for your password, don't type it in.

And be careful with any image you weren't expecting, especially one ending in .svg.

People almost never send those on purpose.

Ask your IT provider to block SVG attachments. Hardly any business needs to receive them, so blocking them costs you nothing.

Whoever controls your domain name controls your whole business. Your domain is the address behind your website and your ...
08/05/2026

Whoever controls your domain name controls your whole business.

Your domain is the address behind your website and your email. It sits in an account at whatever company you registered it with, like GoDaddy.

Anyone who can log into that account can point your website and email wherever they like.

At a lot of small businesses, nobody knows who has that login. It was set up years ago by a web guy who's long gone, or it's under one staff member's personal email with a password that hasn't changed since.

If someone gets into that account, they don't need to hack anything else.

They can send your website visitors to a fake page that still shows your real address.

They can take over your email and reset the passwords on everything tied to it.

They can send your clients an invoice from your real address, and your clients will pay it, because it came from you.

So go and check who controls the account, whether it's got two-factor login switched on, and whether the domain lock is turned on, which stops anyone moving your domain elsewhere.

While you're in there, set it to auto-renew so it can't expire.

If you deleted a OneDrive file recently and went looking for it in your Recycle Bin… surprise, it's not there. Starting...
07/29/2026

If you deleted a OneDrive file recently and went looking for it in your Recycle Bin… surprise, it's not there.

Starting in May 2026, files deleted from OneDrive or SharePoint in the cloud no longer appear in your local Recycle Bin or Trash.

They are removed directly from your device and can only be recovered from the OneDrive or SharePoint web‑based recycle bin.
1. Go to onedrive.com or your SharePoint site
2. Click "Recycle bin" in the left menu
3. Right-click the file and select "Restore"

You typically have 30 days before files move to the second‑stage recycle bin (which most people don’t know about), and up to 93 more days there, depending on your organization’s settings.

After about 123 days, they’re gone for good.

If you signed up for AI tools over the past 18 months and haven't reviewed them since, you're probably wasting money. A...
07/22/2026

If you signed up for AI tools over the past 18 months and haven't reviewed them since, you're probably wasting money.

A March 2026 audit of 102 small businesses found that 87% had significant waste in their AI subscriptions, with a median of $18,000 wasted per year.

Most owners go through the same pattern. You signed up for ChatGPT, then Claude, then a transcription tool, then a meeting note-taker, then a writing assistant. Most of these tools now do what the others do.

Three signs your AI stack needs an audit:
➡️You're paying for two tools that do the same thing
➡️Your team stopped using a subscription you're still paying for
➡️You can't quickly explain the ROI of each tool

While you're at it, check the security too:
✅Make sure every tool is on a business plan with a "Do Not Train" clause. Consumer plans feed your data into the model.
✅Remove access for ex-employees. AI tools get forgotten during offboarding.
✅Check what's connected to your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. AI tools often have access to your email and files you never noticed.

If you've ever spent 5 minutes hunting through Teams trying to find a meeting recording, there's a feature you should be...
07/15/2026

If you've ever spent 5 minutes hunting through Teams trying to find a meeting recording, there's a feature you should be using.

It's called the Meet app, and it's already built into Teams. No Copilot license required.

The Meet app gives you a single dashboard for every meeting you've had or are about to have. Click on any meeting and you get the agenda, recording, transcript, chat, and shared files, all in one place.

To find it:
1. Open Teams
2. Click the three dots on the left navigation bar
3. Search for "Meet"
4. Right-click and pin it so it stays in your sidebar

Once pinned, you'll see two views: upcoming meetings and past meetings. Click any past meeting to see everything tied to it.

Finding what was discussed in last month's leadership review used to take 5 minutes of digging through your calendar, recordings, and SharePoint.

With Meet, it takes 30 seconds.

Your business email is worth more than your bank account. Stolen Microsoft 365 credentials remain the most common start...
07/08/2026

Your business email is worth more than your bank account.

Stolen Microsoft 365 credentials remain the most common starting point for SMB breaches in 2026, and the reason isn't just that attackers can read your messages.

Once someone has access to your email, they can reset the password for every other account tied to that address.

Your bank, your accounting software, your CRM, your cloud storage.

Email is the master key to your entire digital business.

What attackers typically do once they get in:

➡️Set up mailbox forwarding rules so they keep seeing your replies after you change the password

➡️Send invoice fraud emails to your clients from your real account, often changing wire transfer details

➡️Sit for weeks, learning your business, before making a move

Three things that meaningfully reduce this risk:

✅Use phishing-resistant MFA where possible (FIDO2 hardware keys or Windows Hello for Business). Authenticator app prompts are better than nothing, but they can still be bypassed.

✅Set up Conditional Access policies in Entra ID to block logins from countries you don't operate in.

✅Review your mailbox forwarding rules monthly. In Outlook, go to Settings > Mail > Forwarding. If you see a rule you didn't create, that's a sign your account is compromised.

The monthly audit takes 5 minutes and it’s one of the highest-leverage security habits you can build.

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