Cybersecurity and Compliance

That Wasn’t Your Finance Director: The Scary Reality of ‘Vishing’ in 2026

If you received a call from your Managing Director right now asking for an “urgent, off-the-books” transfer to a supplier in Hull, would you question it? Most people wouldn’t. After all, it sounds like them. It has their specific Yorkshire cadence, their typical “Monday morning” urgency, and it might even show up on your screen […]

Cybersecurity and Compliance
Why This Month’s Copilot Zero-Click Excel Bug Changes Everything

The Copilot “Silent Snitch”: Why This Month’s Zero-Click Excel Bug Changes Everything

The security community has long warned that the “Agentic AI” revolution would bring a new class of vulnerabilities. This week, we saw the first major realisation of those fears. As part of the March 2026 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a critical flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-26144) that transforms a standard Excel spreadsheet into a silent data-exfiltration […]

Cybersecurity and Compliance

Do Businesses Still Need Antivirus in 2025?

It’s a question I hear more and more business owners and professionals asking:“Do we still need antivirus in 2025?”With operating systems like Windows 11 offering built-in security and businesses investing in cloud platforms and password managers, it’s easy to think traditional anti-virus might be fading into the background. But the reality is more complicated. Modern […]

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The Best Backup Solutions in 2025: What Every Business (and Home User) Should Know

If you’ve ever lost an important document, watched a hard drive fail, or accidentally deleted something you really needed — you’ll know the value of having a proper backup system in place. And yet, so many people (and businesses) still put it off… until it’s too late. March 31st marks World Backup Day, and it’s […]