Security Threats

Cyber threats evolve constantly, and small businesses face the same attacks as larger organizations—often with fewer resources to defend against them. These articles cover current threat trends affecting Canadian businesses: phishing attacks, ransomware, MFA bypass techniques, and AI-powered threats. Understanding what you’re defending against helps inform better security decisions.

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AI Cyber Attacks Are Changing Small Business Security

In November 2025, Anthropic disrupted something cybersecurity experts have been warning about: a large-scale cyberattack where artificial intelligence executed 80-90% of the work autonomously. Chinese state-sponsored hackers used AI to simultaneously attack roughly 30 organizations, with confirmed successful intrusions at

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MFA Bypass Attacks – How To Protect Accounts

Two-Factor Authentication Isn’t Enough: How MFA Bypass Attacks Are Breaching Accounts (And What You Can Do To Protect Your Email) If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already enabled two-factor authentication on your business email and critical accounts. You followed the

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Mac Security Myth Debunking: ‘Macs Don’t Get Viruses’

One of the most persistent myths in the technology world is that Apple’s Mac computers are immune to viruses and other security threats. For years, many Mac users and even some IT professionals have operated under the dangerous assumption that

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Prevent Malvertising Attacks: Small Business Guide

Picture this: One of your employees is browsing a legitimate, well-known website during their lunch break. Suddenly, they’re redirected to a suspicious page, or worse, their computer starts downloading files without permission. This isn’t a case of careless web browsing

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AI Phishing Attacks: How to Protect Your Business

Phishing has always been a significant cyber threat, but the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has elevated it to an entirely new level of sophistication. Known as Phishing 2.0, these attacks are smarter, more convincing, and far harder to detect.

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Why Canadian Small Businesses Need Cyber Awareness Training

Your business relies on the internet. Your staff are sending and receiving sensitive data regularly. Their email passwords are keys to unlocking mountains of valuable data that any low-level hacker would love to access and sell online. Now stop and

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Password Managers For Business; Why Your Team Needs One

The Password Problem: Bigger Than Ever Password managers for business are a must have – and here’s why. Password-related security breaches continue to plague businesses of all sizes in 2025. Recent statistics paint a concerning picture: Over 30 billion passwords

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MFA Fatigue Attacks: What Is Push-Bombing?

Update New ways to bypass 2 factor authentication are working against account owners now. Check out our new video and post. See Video & Post → In this post we cover a new threat called MFA fatigue attacks, also known

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Is Antivirus Enough To Protect Small Business Data?

https://youtu.be/_HRS9Lhdb44 Commercial antivirus software were wildly popular a few years ago and many companies still swear by them to protect their online IT infrastructure and computer networks. However, do their claims to protect computers from malicious attacks still hold up

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Insider Threat Security: Your Strategy Needs a Human Element

The Uncomfortable Truth About Trust in Business As business owners, we want to believe in the people we hire. After all, we carefully selected them, invested in their training, and welcomed them into our professional family. We celebrate their wins

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