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What the Boston Scientific Cyberattack Teaches Local Businesses About Business Continuity
Boston Scientific, the Marlborough-based medical device maker, needed roughly two weeks to fully restore manufacturing, order fulfillment and shipping after a cyberattack on August 25, 2026, even with a full internal security team and outside incident response firms on the job. If a company that size needed that long, a 20-person accounting firm or a
Boston Scientific, the Marlborough-based medical device maker, needed roughly two weeks to fully restore manufacturing, order fulfillment and shipping after a cyberattack on August 25, 2026, even with a full internal security team and outside incident response firms on the job. If a company that size needed that long, a 20-person accounting firm or a
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September 2026 Patch Tuesday: What Boston Businesses Need to Patch Now
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed close to 970 vulnerabilities, the largest single release of the year, and two of them were already being exploited before the fix shipped. If your business runs Windows machines that haven’t updated since early September, treat this month’s patch as urgent rather than routine. Microsoft patched roughly 966 to
Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed close to 970 vulnerabilities, the largest single release of the year, and two of them were already being exploited before the fix shipped. If your business runs Windows machines that haven’t updated since early September, treat this month’s patch as urgent rather than routine. Microsoft patched roughly 966 to
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Microsoft 365 Passkeys Are Now the Default: What Boston Businesses Need to Know
Microsoft 365 passkeys became the default sign-in method on September 1, 2026, when Microsoft Entra ID (the identity system behind Microsoft 365 sign-in) began automatically enrolling users who rely on text or phone-call codes into a passkey registration prompt. If your business hasn’t touched its multi-factor authentication settings, some of your staff are probably seeing
Microsoft 365 passkeys became the default sign-in method on September 1, 2026, when Microsoft Entra ID (the identity system behind Microsoft 365 sign-in) began automatically enrolling users who rely on text or phone-call codes into a passkey registration prompt. If your business hasn’t touched its multi-factor authentication settings, some of your staff are probably seeing
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Gunra Ransomware: What Boston Businesses Need to Know
Gunra ransomware is a fast-growing extortion operation that federal agencies warned about on August 10, 2026, and it gets into networks through unpatched VPN and firewall appliances, not through some exotic new hack. If your business runs an internet-facing Fortinet device, an old VPN box, or any remote-access gear that hasn’t been patched in a
Gunra ransomware is a fast-growing extortion operation that federal agencies warned about on August 10, 2026, and it gets into networks through unpatched VPN and firewall appliances, not through some exotic new hack. If your business runs an internet-facing Fortinet device, an old VPN box, or any remote-access gear that hasn’t been patched in a
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Windows 10 End of Support: How Boston Businesses Should Handle the ESU Price Hike
Windows 10 stopped receiving free security updates on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is not walking that back. Businesses that still run it can buy Extended Security Updates (ESU) to keep getting patches, but the price doubles every year and the program caps out after three years. If your office still has Windows 10 machines,
Windows 10 stopped receiving free security updates on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is not walking that back. Businesses that still run it can buy Extended Security Updates (ESU) to keep getting patches, but the price doubles every year and the program caps out after three years. If your office still has Windows 10 machines,
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Microsoft 365 Business Plans Get More Storage and Security in 2026
Microsoft is quietly upgrading every Microsoft 365 Business plan this summer. If you run Business Basic, Standard, or Premium, your mailboxes are getting more storage and your email links are getting rescanned at the moment someone clicks, and none of it costs extra. The rollout finishes by August 1, 2026, and it lands in your
Microsoft is quietly upgrading every Microsoft 365 Business plan this summer. If you run Business Basic, Standard, or Premium, your mailboxes are getting more storage and your email links are getting rescanned at the moment someone clicks, and none of it costs extra. The rollout finishes by August 1, 2026, and it lands in your
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