Practical explanations of the things that actually affect UK businesses — written by the engineers who deal with them, not by a marketing department.
14 October 2026 | Cybersecurity News | EasyLifeIT Microsoft has released one of the most significant security updates in its history, addressing
Attackers sent a push notification through the ASOS app itself. What has been confirmed, what has only been claimed, and why your notification platform belongs inside your security perimeter.
SPF records are allowed ten DNS lookups. Go past it and the whole record is discarded, silently, by every mail server that reads it. Why it happens, what it costs, and how to check yours.
Set up once by whoever was holding the router, then untouched for years. In a lot of buildings it is the softest way in.
The most common gap we find, with consequences at both ends — new people who cannot work, and former people who still can.
Most of what we were taught about passwords is now counterproductive. What changed, what good looks like, and where passkeys genuinely fit.
Consumer Extended Security Updates run out next month and business ESU roughly doubles in price each year. The three options, and how to decide in an afternoon.
Copilot only sees what the person asking can see. That is the reassuring line — and, for most businesses, the entire problem.
Three places to put a file and no obvious rule about which. The rule is simpler than the interface suggests — and getting it wrong makes a resignation into a data problem.