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A major dark web marketplace operator just got sentenced to 40 years in prison. Forty years. For facilitating hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal transactions and putting ransomware tools into

I have a client that makes electric motors right here in Traverse City. Bay Motor Products. Great company, been doing it a long time. So when I see a story about the electric motor sector taking off, it

This story caught my attention because it is exactly the kind of thing that happens when your business is already in crisis mode and you are desperate to get your data back.

People are impersonating CEOs and other important people inside Microsoft Teams meetings. Not just with text or chat messages. With audio and video. You can be looking at somebody who looks like the b

The Department of Energy is accepting applications right now for programs that support small manufacturers. Money is out there. I wanted to see how hard it actually is to find it, so I tried the new f

I want to flag this one quickly because it is worth a few minutes of your time. The Visa Foundation, yes, the credit card company, has a program called the U.S. Small Business Growth and Innovation Pr

We’ve talked about this with clients before, and it keeps coming up for good reason. When you turn on Copilot, it’s like hiring a super smart IT person who immediately knows how to run around your ent

If you use Microsoft Copilot, and especially if you use it hard and heavy, this one matters. Microsoft is turning on consumption billing by default, and if you are not paying attention, you could open

I love pointing this one out. The Pentagon has one of the largest IT security budgets on the planet. And they still got hacked. Over 3 million records, gone.

Windows updates are a fact of life. The 26H2 update for Windows 11 is now out, packaged as a lightweight enablement package, which sounds harmless enough. But I want to be straight with you: any Windo