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Name: Todd Tech
Address: 415 Congress Street Suite 301P, Portland, ME, 04101, US
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10/26/2026

⚠️ If your website runs on WordPress, this is worth 60 seconds.

Last week, experts found a weakness in the software WordPress runs on. It can let a stranger take over a website without a password. A repair came out on October 21, but break-in attempts had already started.

If someone takes over your website, here’s what can happen:

🔴 Google shows a big red “dangerous site” warning, and customers leave.
🔴 Some of your visitors get quietly sent to scam websites.
🔴 Fake pages appear on your site under your name.
🔴 Your site sends junk emails, so your real emails get blocked too.
🔴 Your hosting company shuts your site down until it’s cleaned up.
🔴 The cleanup can cost from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.
🔴 Even after it’s fixed, Google can take days or weeks to remove the warning.

At Todd Tech, we’ve been checking and fixing this for all our clients’ websites this week. If you’d like us to take a look at yours, just send us a message at [email protected]

10/23/2026

The security problems we find in small offices are almost never the ones anybody was worried about.

Not a sophisticated attacker hiding in the network. A laptop bought in a hurry that came with the version of Windows sold for home use, doing business work ever since. A machine still running an operating system that stopped getting security updates in October 2025. A previous provider's security software still installed underneath the current one. An account belonging to somebody who left, still active and still licensed.

Every one of those started as an ordinary decision made under time pressure, by somebody doing their best, and none of them ever announced itself as a problem. Nobody was careless. There was simply nothing in the building whose job it was to notice.

That is what a blind spot actually is. Not a threat you failed to defend against. A fact about your own business that nothing was ever going to tell you.

This is the honest argument for having someone watch your systems, and it has very little to do with hackers. It is that a business cannot fix what it has no way of seeing, and almost nothing in technology volunteers the information.

If you would like to know what is actually running in your office, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

10/20/2026

The best defense against a phishing email is not software. It is the two seconds between reading it and doing what it asks.

That sounds like a poster. It is actually a description of how nearly every one of these goes wrong.

The message does not fail because it was convincing. It succeeds because it arrived while somebody was between two meetings, on a phone, dealing with fourteen other things, and it asked for something small and plausible that would take less time to do than to question.

Urgency is the payload. Everything else is packaging.

So the habit worth building is narrow enough to actually stick. If a message makes you feel you need to act right now, that feeling is the reason to slow down, not to hurry. Anything that moves money or grants access gets verified another way before it happens, every time, including when it comes from someone senior. Especially then.

Software helps. A second step at login means a stolen password is not enough on its own, and good filtering removes most of the volume before anyone sees it. Neither replaces the pause, because the messages that get through are the ones designed to survive the filter.

If nobody at your office has been told that pausing is allowed, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

10/16/2026

Your staff are the only part of your security that can notice something is wrong and decide to say so. Software cannot do that part.

Most training is built on the opposite assumption, which is why it does not work. People sit through a module, pass a quiz, and learn that security is a compliance exercise performed once a year.

What we see work in an office of 20 to 40 people is smaller and duller:

- Train on the things that actually arrive at your business, not generic examples. A design firm and a medical practice get targeted with completely different stories.

- Run one simulated phishing message, then treat whoever clicks as a volunteer who found a gap, not a problem. The moment somebody gets embarrassed in public, everybody else stops reporting.

- Give one clear route for anything suspicious, and make sure somebody answers it the same day. An unanswered report teaches everyone not to bother.

- Write the rule for payment changes down in one sentence, and apply it to the owner too.

- Tell people what it protects for them personally. The same habits protect their own accounts, and that is what makes them stick.

- Recognise the person who reports the near miss, out loud.

None of that requires a platform.

If your last training was a slide deck nobody remembers, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

10/14/2026

Six things that cost nothing, taken from what we actually find when we take over a set of computers.

1- Turn on a second step at login everywhere it is offered. This is the single highest return item on the list and it is free in every business email platform you are already paying for.

2- Remove accounts for people who have left. Also the vendor and contractor accounts nobody closed. Finding logins still active long after somebody walked out on good terms is routine, not rare.

3- Cut administrator rights back to the people who genuinely need them. Most staff do not, and most were given it once to install something.

4- Turn on automatic updates, then check they are working. Windows 10 stopped receiving security updates on 14 October 2025, and machines still running it have gone without ever since. They give no sign of it.

5- Put the passwords in a password manager instead of a spreadsheet, a notebook or the same one reused everywhere.

6- Test a restore. Not check that the backup ran. Actually restore a file and open it. A backup nobody has restored from is a theory.

None of that needs a budget, a project or a new product. It needs somebody to spend an afternoon on it and know where to look.

If you want to know which of the six is missing at your office, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

10/13/2026

When we take over a set of computers, finding two security products fighting each other on the same machine is routine. Nobody did it on purpose.

That is what tool sprawl actually looks like in a small business. Not a bloated security stack anyone chose. A provider changed, or a laptop arrived with something preinstalled, and the old product never came off.

The result is two programs watching the same files, each capable of quarantining something the other needs, both reporting the machine as protected. It is the hardest kind of problem to notice, because nothing is alerting. Everything looks covered from every direction at once.

The fix is never a further purchase. It is an inventory: what is actually installed here, what is it for, what is it duplicating, and what came with the hardware that nobody asked for. That work is unglamorous and it is usually where the real gaps are.

More tools also means more places a setting can be wrong and more alerts nobody reads. Adding the seventh product to a business that has not checked the first six is not a security decision. It is a way of feeling like one was made.

If nobody has listed what is actually running on your machines, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

10/08/2026

The insider threat that actually costs small businesses money is not a disgruntled employee copying files. It is a laptop that quietly stopped being anywhere.

Somebody leaves on good terms. Their machine goes in a drawer, or home with them, or onto a shelf behind the printer. Nobody connects the person leaving with the hardware and the accounts, because those three things live with three different people and none of them is having that conversation.

Here is what makes it a real problem rather than a tidiness one. A machine that has stopped checking in has stopped getting updates, stopped being monitored, and cannot be wiped remotely. The company data that was on it the day it went quiet is still on it today. If it was signed into email and file storage, it still is, unless somebody thought to remove the account.

When we take over an environment, finding active logins for people who left is routine. Not occasionally. Routinely, and usually nobody in the building knew.

Offboarding is a security control. Most small businesses treat it as an HR errand, and the gap between those two ideas is where this lives.

If you cannot say where every company computer physically is, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

10/06/2026

Todd Tech’s plan customers are billed in 15-minute increments for remote work. Everyone else pays a one-hour minimum. That difference is the honest answer to "security is too expensive."

The objection is almost never really about the monthly number. It is about not knowing what the number buys, and having been burned by an invoice nobody could have predicted.

So here is how we price the thing that makes people nervous. Scope, price and any time minimum are agreed before work starts, and we stop and ask before exceeding them. A five-minute fix costs a plan client five minutes, not an hour. The hourly rate for anything outside the plan is lower on a plan than off it.

None of that is a discount. It is just refusing to make money from the gap between what a customer expected and what arrived.

The comparison people reach for is the cost of a breach, and we are not going to do that here, because you cannot verify a number like that and neither can we. The comparison that holds up is smaller. One person unable to work for a day, in a 30-person business, costs more than most of the things that would have prevented it.

If you want a number you can actually plan around, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

10/01/2026

The phishing email that works on your office will not look like phishing. It will look like something you were already waiting for.

The old advice was to watch for bad spelling and odd greetings. That advice is now actively harmful, because it teaches people that a well-written message is a safe one.

What we see land instead: a message that matches a real vendor you use, arriving in the week you would expect it. An invoice that references an actual project. A note from a senior person, in their register, asking for something plausible.

Four things that still work, none of which involve spotting a typo:

Treat unexpected urgency as the signal, not the wording. Pressure to move fast is the one thing nearly every one of these has in common.

Verify any request that moves money or data through a different channel. Not by replying. Phone the person on a number you already had.

Put a second step on every login, so a stolen password on its own is not enough.

Make reporting a suspected message completely consequence free. The costly version is the person who clicked at 9am and said nothing until 4pm.

The last one is not a technical control and it matters more than the rest.

If your team has never been told what to do in the first ten minutes, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

09/29/2026

Windows 10 stopped receiving security updates on 14 October 2025. Somewhere in most offices there is still a machine running it.

It switches on. It opens email. Nothing about it looks broken, which is exactly the problem.

That is the shape of nearly every cybersecurity myth worth debunking. Not a dramatic misunderstanding. A quiet assumption that nothing has changed since the last time anyone looked.

The assumption underneath most of them is that somebody would notice. That an unsupported machine would announce itself, that a laptop nobody has seen in months would come up in conversation, that the security software a previous provider installed came off when they left. None of those things generate a complaint, an alert or an invoice. They just sit there.

Most cybersecurity advice is written as though the hard part is choosing the right protection. In our experience the hard part is knowing what you actually have. A business cannot fix what nothing tells it about, and almost nothing in technology tells you.

A myth survives because nobody checked, not because anybody was careless.

If nobody has looked at what you are actually running, book 15 minutes: toddtechservices.com

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