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The "Session Cookie" Hijack: Why MFA Can’t Always Save You

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MFA is a strong front-door lock. But it’s not the only thing that decides whether someone can get in.

After you sign in, your browser keeps you logged in using a session token (often stored as a cookie). It’s the digital version of a wristband at an event: once you’ve been checked, the wristband proves you belong there. If an attacker steals that wristband, they may not need to beat your MFA prompt at all.

That’s the core of session cookie hijacking. The attacker isn’t “cracking” MFA. They’re skipping it by replaying your already authenticated session.

This isn’t a reason to stop using MFA. It’s a reason to stop treating MFA as the finish line.

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The Coming AI Content Verification War

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Over the next 1-2 years, the way we trust information on the internet is going to fundamentally change.

With AI making it effortless to generate incredibly realistic fake documents, emails, and deepfakes, "seeing is believing" is no longer a valid business strategy.

Soon, proving that your content is real will be just as critical as protecting it. In today’s blog, we are showing you why AI content verification is about to become the new antivirus software.

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LinkedIn Social Engineering: How to Shield Your Team from Fake Job Scams

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The FTC describes scammers impersonating well-known companies and then steering targets toward actions that create leverage. These actions include handing over sensitive personal information or sending money for “equipment” or other upfront costs.

Once someone is rushed into treating the process as real, the scam doesn’t need to be technically sophisticated. It just needs the victim to keep moving.

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5 Security Layers Your IT Support Is Likely Missing (and How to Add Them)

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Most small businesses aren’t falling short because they don’t care. They’re falling short because they didn’t build their security strategy as one coordinated system. They added tools over time to solve immediate problems, a new threat here, a client request there.

On paper, that can look like strong coverage. In reality, it often creates a patchwork of products that don’t fully work together. Some areas overlap. Others get overlooked.

And when security isn’t intentionally designed as a system, the weaknesses don’t show up during routine support tickets. They show up when something slips through and turns into a disruptive, expensive problem.

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The Essential Checklist for Securing Company Laptops at Home

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At home, security incidents don’t look like dramatic movie hacks. They look like stepping away from your laptop during a delivery, or leaving it unlocked while you grab something from another room.

Those ordinary moments, repeated over time, are how work devices end up exposed.

A remote work security checklist focuses on simple, practical controls that hold up in real life. Put it in place once, make it routine, and you’ll prevent the kinds of issues that hurt most because they were entirely avoidable.   

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