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Word and Excel will carry on opening exactly as normal. Nothing will look different, and nothing will be patched again either.

No phishing email, no unpatched server. An IT administrator searched for a piece of software he already used, downloaded it from the top result, and the whole network was encrypted two days later.

One of Europe's largest hosting companies is putting some prices up by 87% from September. The cause is not greed, and it will not stay with one company.

The NCSC has responded to AI systems taking actions nobody sanctioned. Its advice for businesses is refreshingly ordinary - and it is worth reading before you switch on anything that acts for you.

A password-spraying campaign broke into 78 Microsoft 365 accounts. Fifty-five of them had multi-factor authentication turned on at the time. Here is the gap, and how to close it.

Attackers got Meta's own systems to send the phishing email for them, from a genuine Facebook address. If your business runs a Facebook page or pays for ads, this is the one to understand.

July's update was the largest Microsoft has ever shipped, and two of the flaws were already being used in attacks. The volume is the real story for anyone who patches by good intentions.

Two flaws in WordPress itself, chained together, handed complete control of a site to anyone who asked. Patched on 17 July. Here is how to be sure yours is on a safe version.

One web page that did not check what people typed into it. From there, attackers took the server, switched off its defences and put it to work making money for somebody else.