How to Secure (and Recover) Your Business Social Media and Google Business Profile
How to properly structure admin access on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Business Profile, and exactly what to do if one of these accounts is hijacked.
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Your Vendor or IT Provider Just Got Breached: What to Do in the First 48 Hours
A vendor or IT provider breach notification just arrived. A first-48-hours playbook for containing your exposure, assessing your own data risk, and meeting notification duties.
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Cyber Insurance Applications in 2026: The Questions Insurers Ask and How to Answer Honestly
What 2026 cyber insurance underwriters actually ask about MFA, EDR, backups, and incident response, and why misrepresenting your controls can void a claim later.
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Payroll Diversion Fraud: When a Fake Email Reroutes an Employee’s Paycheck
Payroll diversion fraud reroutes an employee’s paycheck with a single fake direct-deposit-change email to HR or payroll. How the attack works and the callback rule that stops it.
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Infostealer Malware: How Your Company Logins End Up for Sale
Infostealer malware infects a single device and quietly exfiltrates every saved password and session cookie on it. How it spreads, the warning signs, and how to contain an infection fast.
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Browser Extension Security: The Add-Ons Quietly Reading Your Business Data
The Install Nobody Approved Your bookkeeper is copying invoice totals out of a customer portal into a spreadsheet, and it is tedious, so she searches the Chrome Web Store for “copy table to spreadsheet.” The third result has four stars and 90,000 users. She clicks Add to Chrome. A gray box says the extension can…
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A Customer Sent You a Security Questionnaire: How to Answer Without Losing the Deal
The email that lands three days before signature Your salesperson forwards a message from the buyer’s procurement analyst. Subject line: “Third-Party Information Security Assessment — Tier 2, required before contract execution.” Attached is a spreadsheet with four tabs and 214 numbered rows. Column C is a dropdown limited to Yes, No, Partially, and N/A. Row…
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The Callback Rule: A Payment Verification Procedure That Stops Wire Fraud
The email that does not look like an attack It is 4:10 on a Thursday. Your bookkeeper opens an email from the controller at a supplier you have paid monthly for six years. Same signature block, same logo. Subject line: Updated remittance details. Their bank completed a merger, the old account closes Friday, please route…
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You Turned On MFA and Still Got Hacked: How Attackers Steal Session Tokens
SmallBizSecurityGuide is reader-supported. If you buy through links on this page we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The email looks like a voicemail, and the login page is perfect Your office manager gets a message that looks like it came from a coworker: a shared document, or a missed-call notification…
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The Fake CAPTCHA Scam (ClickFix): How Employees Get Tricked Into Infecting Their Own PC
What the fake CAPTCHA actually looks like on screen Your bookkeeper clicks a link in a vendor email — a PDF invoice hosted on a site she does not recognize but has no reason to distrust. The page loads and shows a checkbox that looks exactly like the “I’m not a robot” widget she has…