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Identity Theft Protection Employee Benefit: 2026 HR Guide
Last Updated: June 2026 | Reading time: ~9 minutes In March 2026, nearly 2.7 million employees and their dependents received breach notification letters from a company most of them had never heard of. Navia Benefit Solutions, a Washington-based benefits administrator...
Identity Theft Protection FAQ: 7 Rapid-Fire Answers to Keep Your Money Safe
Last updated: June 2026 Identity crime isn't a one-time event anymore. The Identity Theft Resource Center's 2026 Trends in Identity Report, released June 9, 2026, found that 25.6% of victims are now dealing with two or more identity crimes at the same time, up from...
Vishing Attacks: What They Are and How to Stop Them 2026
Last Updated: May 2026 | Reading time: ~10 minutes In January 2026, a coordinated group of attackers worked through a list of companies and started calling employees. No malware. No exploit code. They called the help desk, said they were from IT, and asked the...
Ransomware and Small Business: What to Know in 2026
Last Updated: May 2026 | Reading time: ~10 minutes Most small business owners assume they are not interesting enough to target. Ransomware operators are counting on that assumption. In 2025, ransomware attacks on small and midsize businesses jumped 34%, and 88% of all...
Third-Party Data Breach: SMB Survival Guide for 2026
Last Updated: May 2026 | Reading time: ~11 minutes A third-party data breach is no longer an enterprise problem that occasionally splashes onto small businesses. In a single 30-day window this spring, McGraw-Hill, Adobe, Vimeo, and ADT all disclosed breaches that...
AI Job Scams in 2026: Red Flags You Can’t Afford to Miss
Last Updated: April 2026 | Reading time: ~10 minutes AI job scams are now the fastest-growing category of fraud aimed at job seekers. Reports to the Federal Trade Commission topped 105,000 in 2024, roughly three times the 2020 total, and reported losses jumped from...