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05/31/2026

Why most small business founders wait too long to address cybersecurity.

"I'll deal with it when I have time."
"My business is too small to target."
"My accountant hasn't mentioned it."
"Norton is running, I think we're fine."

All four are the same sentence in different words: nobody is asking me to do this yet, so I won't.

The carriers are asking. The regulators are asking. The clients are asking. Most founders don't hear those requests until they're a few months late to answer them.

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05/31/2026

3 cybersecurity threats hitting small businesses harder in June than May. Here is the heads-up.

1. Vacation-season BEC. June is the heaviest travel month of the year. Out-of-office replies, distracted approvers, and fewer hands at the office combine into the conditions BEC attackers prefer. Lock down wire-transfer policies before the first vacation request hits.

2. AI-powered hiring scams. Summer hiring picks up. Deepfake video interviews and AI-written candidate profiles are showing up in small-business hiring queues. Treat unsolicited "perfect match" candidates the way you would treat unsolicited vendors.

3. Pre-renewal cyber-insurance gaps. Many SMB cyber policies renew in July or August. Brokers are starting outreach in June. If your last assessment was over a year ago, this is the month to refresh it before the renewal application lands.

Not a fear post. A heads-up. A small business that knows what is coming has 4 weeks to prepare.

05/30/2026

Don't fall for this clever trap! Hackers are using fake Google Security pages to trick users into installing malicious web apps that bypass multi-factor authentication and steal passwords. Make sure your team knows how to spot this scam!

A phishing campaign is using a fake Google Account security page to deliver a web-based app capable of stealing one-time passcodes, harvesting cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and proxying attacker traffic through victims' browsers.

05/29/2026

Small Business Month wraps up this weekend.

If you've had "run that free assessment" on your list since May 1, this is the last Friday to do it and still have the word May on the calendar.

Not a time-limited offer. The assessment is free every day. But calendar pressure is real, and May not becoming June is one of the more reliable ones.

10 minutes. Scored report. No sales call attached.

https://security.sohomsp.net

05/29/2026

MFA did not stop the attacker. The phishing page asked for the 6-digit code and got it in real time.

This is "adversary in the middle" phishing, and it is the fastest-growing technique against small businesses. The lookalike login page captures the username, password, and the one-time code, then forwards them to the real Microsoft or Google login within seconds. The attacker walks in with a valid session.

The 6-digit code did its job. The session token gave it away.

Three controls that actually break this attack:

1. Move the accounts that matter (owner, finance, admin) to phishing-resistant MFA: passkeys or FIDO2 hardware keys. They cannot be relayed.
2. Turn on session-token revocation policies in Microsoft Entra or Google Workspace, so admins can kill suspicious sessions without resetting passwords company-wide.
3. Train staff that any login prompt arriving from a link in an email is the wrong path. Always type the URL or use a saved bookmark.

MFA is still essential. But not all MFA is equal anymore.

05/28/2026

Your bookkeeper is a 4-person company. They just gave 60 of your competitors' customer lists to a ransomware crew. You might be next.

Small-business breaches almost never come through the front door. They come through a vendor of a vendor of a vendor. The bookkeeper, the IT contractor, the marketing freelancer, the local payroll service. None of them have a security team. All of them have your data.

Three vendor-risk steps any small business can take in one afternoon:

1. Make a list of every outside party that has access to your customer data, financials, or email. Most owners are surprised at the length.
2. For each one, ask one question: "Do you have MFA on every account that touches our data, and have you tested a backup in the last 12 months?" Their answer or their silence tells you everything.
3. Add a 30-day notice clause to any new vendor contract. If they get breached, you want options.

Your defenses are only as strong as the weakest contractor with your password.

05/28/2026

We sat down with a 15-person western PA business last week. Owner asked the question we hear constantly: "Why would I replace a PC that still turns on?"

Here is what that PC is costing him.

It is a 2014 Dell. Boots in just under four minutes. Loses about 70 hours per employee per year to slow apps, crashes, and reboots (Techaisle / Microsoft). At a $40 fully-loaded labor rate, that is $2,800 per worker, per year, of payroll producing nothing.

Multiply by 15 employees. $42,000.

The replacement costs about $900. It pays for itself in four months.

And that is before the Windows 10 problem. Microsoft stopped patching Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. Three years of paid Extended Security Updates costs $427 per device, and at the end of Year 3 the machine still needs to be replaced. Cyber insurance carriers are checking now.

We are not telling you to throw out hardware that is healthy. We are telling you the math is not what you think it is. A free 10-minute hardware health check will tell you exactly where the urgent risk sits in your office.

Read the full breakdown: https://soho-integration.com/old-desktop-computers-cost-small-business?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=modern-pc-roi&utm_content=fb-comparison

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05/28/2026

Small Business Month ends Sunday.

Across four blogs and more than a dozen social posts, we covered the 2025 DBIR breach numbers, the 8 controls cyber insurance carriers are asking for, the minimum stack for a 2-year-old business, and when a 10-person business outgrows "our nephew handles IT."

The part we kept underlining: nobody has to do everything in May.

The pattern that actually works is one control at a time, starting with whichever one fails your next cyber insurance renewal. That's usually 90 minutes of work, not a quarter-long project.

If your renewal is in the next 120 days and you don't know where you stand, the free SoHo Security Checkup gets you a scored picture in 10 minutes: https://security.sohomsp.net

05/27/2026

Cybercriminals are getting creative! A new "Zombie ZIP" technique is sneaking malware past 50 different antivirus engines by tricking the software into misreading the archive files. Are your business's defense systems ready for this?

A new technique dubbed "Zombie ZIP" helps conceal payloads in compressed files specially created to avoid detection from security solutions such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) products.