Microsoft 365 Price Increase 2026: What It Means for Your Boston Business
Microsoft raised the price of Microsoft 365 Business Basic and Business Standard on July 1, 2026, while Business Premium held flat. If your company runs on Microsoft 365, the direct cost impact is modest for most seat counts, but the update also bundles in more mailbox storage and new anti-phishing protection that are worth checking […]
How Hackers Use Hotel Wi-Fi to Steal Microsoft 365 Accounts
A few weeks ago, an employee at one of our clients, a fast-growing Boston biomedical startup, checked into a hotel for a work trip and did the most ordinary thing in the world. They connected to the hotel Wi-Fi and signed into Microsoft 365. Correct password. MFA approved. Everything looked normal. Within the same login […]
Managed IT vs. Break-Fix: What the Downtime Numbers Actually Show Boston Businesses
What’s the real difference between managed IT and break-fix support? Break-fix IT means paying by the incident: something breaks, you call a technician, you get billed for the hours it takes to fix it. Managed IT is a flat-rate subscription covering monitoring, patching, backups, and security as ongoing work, with incident response included rather than […]
AI Voice Cloning Scams: How Boston Businesses Can Protect Against Deepfake Fraud
What is AI voice cloning fraud? AI voice cloning fraud is a scam where attackers use artificial intelligence to recreate a real person’s voice — typically an executive, vendor, or family member — from a short audio sample, then use that cloned voice in a phone call or video conference to trick someone into transferring […]
AI-Powered Phishing Attacks Are Targeting Boston Small Businesses in 2026 — Here’s What to Do
Are AI-generated phishing emails really that different from old-school spam? Yes — dramatically so. Traditional phishing emails were easy to spot: poor grammar, generic greetings, suspicious links. AI-generated phishing in 2026 mimics the tone, vocabulary, and even the signature style of real colleagues and vendors. According to Abnormal Security’s 2026 Email Threat Report, AI-crafted business […]
Think Before You Click: How to Check If a Link Is Safe
Phishing attacks are the leading cause of data breaches and ransomware infections for businesses of every size. Attackers craft convincing emails, text messages, and social media posts containing links that look legitimate but lead to credential-harvesting pages or malware downloads. Before you click any suspicious link — or forward one to a colleague — use […]
AI-Powered Cyberattacks in 2026: What Boston SMBs Need to Know
The cybersecurity landscape is changing faster than ever, and 2026 is proving to be a pivotal year for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Boston. AI-driven cyberattacks are no longer a distant threat—they’re here, and they’re smarter, faster, and harder to detect than ever before. Across Greater Boston, a growing share of breaches now involve […]
Why Boston SMBs Cannot Treat June 2026 Patch Tuesday as Routine
If your business usually treats Patch Tuesday as background noise, June 2026 is a bad month to keep that habit. As of Thursday, June 11, 2026, multiple reports describe Microsoft’s June security release as its largest Patch Tuesday so far this year, with roughly 200 vulnerabilities fixed across Windows and related products. Several reports also […]
Does Your Website Have a Privacy Policy? Generate One Free in 2 Minutes
If your business has a website that collects any information from visitors — even just an email address from a contact form — you are legally required to post a privacy policy. Many Massachusetts businesses don’t realize this, or they copy a generic policy from another website that doesn’t actually reflect their practices. Use our […]
The “Session Cookie” Hijack: Why MFA Can’t Always Save You
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 the digital version of a wristband at an event: once you’ve been checked, the wristband proves […]