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Cybersecurity

Plain-language security and IT news for Gulf Coast businesses. What happened, whether it affects you, and what to do about it.

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  • Cybersecurity

Windows Zero-Day File Warning Bypass: What Southwest Florida Businesses Need to Know

A Windows zero-day file warning bypass tracked as CVE-2026-96951 lets a booby-trapped file skip the security warning that normally appears before you open something...

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  • Cybersecurity

FortiMail Vulnerability: What Southwest Florida Businesses Should Do About CVE-2026-104286

A critical FortiMail vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286, is already being exploited against unpatched email security appliances. If your business runs a FortiMail gateway, you...

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  • Cybersecurity

Check Point Firewall Vulnerability: What Southwest Florida Businesses Should Do Now

If your business runs a Check Point Spark or Security Gateway firewall, patch it today. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the...

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  • Cybersecurity

Remote Monitoring Software Vulnerability: What Southwest Florida Businesses Should Ask Their IT Provider

A critical remote monitoring software vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86218, is already being exploited in the wild, and it doesn’t live on your laptop. It...

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  • Cybersecurity

September 2026 Patch Tuesday: The Remote Desktop Flaw Southwest Florida Businesses Can’t Skip

Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed close to a thousand vulnerabilities, and one of them deserves attention this week: CVE-2026-69525, a flaw in Remote...

Small business office employees reviewing a cybersecurity checklist on a laptop in Southwest Florida
  • Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026: A Southwest Florida SMB Checklist

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 runs through October, and for a Naples, Fort Myers, or Tampa small business the useful version of it is not...

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  • Cybersecurity

Help Desk Impersonation Scams Are Bypassing MFA at Southwest Florida Businesses

A caller says they’re from your IT provider and needs you to approve a login prompt or read back a one-time code to fix...

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  • Cybersecurity

Stolen Logins Are Now the Top Cyber Threat to Southwest Florida Small Businesses

Stolen logins, not malware, are the leading way small businesses get breached right now. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that compromised credentials...

Small business owner in Southwest Florida checking website security updates on a laptop
  • Cybersecurity

WordPress Security Update: What Southwest Florida Businesses Need to Know

WordPress released a WordPress security update on August 12, 2026 that patches a high-severity remote code execution flaw affecting sites still running version 7.0.3...

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