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The POS Cyber Security Breach That Closed 300 Restaurants: Lessons for Hospitality

Wednesday, 03 December 2025 by Raphael Waller

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Could a single compromised password bring your restaurant’s transaction processing to a halt during Saturday night service? It happened to nearly 300 restaurants in January 2023 when a ransomware attack forced Yum! Brands to close KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell locations for an entire day. Your POS terminals process hundreds of card payments during

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AI vs AI: When Criminals and Defenders Both Weaponize Machine Learning

Tuesday, 02 December 2025 by Sagi

AI vs AI - When Cyber Criminals and Defenders both weaponize machine learning

Can you defend against an attack that rewrites itself faster than your security team can respond? Cardonet has been looking after clients’ IT for more than 25 years. In that time the security threats have changed constantly, but this feels different. AI has moved from being a “nice to have” innovation to the engine behind

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The Access Control Crisis: Managing Identity When Teams Double Every Quarter

Friday, 21 November 2025 by Raphael Waller

Access Control Crisis and Managing Identity

Your Series A just closed. You’ve hired 15 people in six weeks. Your engineer who left last month still has AWS access. Your CTO doesn’t know who can see customer payment data. Sound familiar? Picture this scenario at a fast-growing London fintech start-up. Monday morning – The operations lead gets a Slack message. “Can’t access GitHub.”

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Windows 10 Has Reached End of Support…Expect More Downtime

Tuesday, 21 October 2025 by David

If Your Hotel Lobby Went Dark… Imagine if your hotel’s lobby lost power during check-in, or if your restaurant’s POS system went offline mid-service. Every minute of downtime means frustrated customers, lost revenue, and reputational damage. Running Windows 10 now puts your business in the same position. Microsoft has officially ended support. That means no more

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Windows 10 End of Life Is Here

Tuesday, 23 September 2025 by David

Time is Running Out – Upgrade Now With Windows 10 reaching its end of life in October 2025, you need to act now to prevent security and compliance risks, plus performance issues. Continuing to run an unsupported operating system could expose your business to disruptions and avoidable issues. According to Computer World only 45% of Windows

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Windows 10 End-of-Support is less than one month away

Wednesday, 17 September 2025 by David

Less than a month to Windows 10 End of Support

Don’t Let Outdated Devices Disrupt Your Operations Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14. If you haven’t made the switch yet, you’ll miss critical updates affecting your security and performance. Putting you at risk of an attack, downtime, and increased IT costs. Nearly 500 million users are, and 240 million of those devices can’t even run

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