Cyber Intelligence guides and explainers, written in plain English for business owners and decision-makers.
A phishing link can begin on legitimate Google infrastructure and still take someone to a malicious page. The practical lesson for SMEs is to check the whole request, not just the first domain.
Read articleEmployees use AI chatbots for drafting, research and problem-solving — and sometimes paste in confidential information. The AI provider's privacy terms are not the only risk. A browser extension with the right permissions may already be reading the conversation.
Read articleSigning into another service with Google or Microsoft is convenient — but some applications request far more than basic identity information. That access may remain long after you stop using the service, and changing your password does not necessarily remove it.
Read articleCyber criminals discuss companies, sell stolen credentials, advertise network access and publish stolen data across underground forums and ransomware leak sites. The difficult part has never been collecting that information — it has been deciding which fragments genuinely matter. Google is using Gemini to try to answer that question.
Read articleAn important email appears to be missing. The natural response is to blame the spam filter and reduce its protection. That can solve one visible problem while creating a much larger security weakness — and it may not even solve the original one.
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