The Small Business Cyber Security Guy | Cybersecurity for SMB & Startups
By The Small Business Cyber Security Guy
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Description
The UK's leading small business cybersecurity podcast, helping SMEs protect against cyber threats without breaking the bank.
Join cybersecurity veterans Noel Bradford (CIO at Boutique Security First MSP) and Mauven MacLeod (ex-UK Government Cyber Analyst) as they translate enterprise-level security expertise into practical, affordable solutions for UK small businesses.
🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- Cyber Essentials certification guidance
- Protecting against ransomware & phishing attacks
- GDPR compliance for small businesses
- Supply chain & third-party security risks
- Cloud security & remote work protection
- Budget-friendly cybersecurity tools & strategies
🏆 PERFECT FOR:
- UK small business owners (5-50 employees)
- Startup founders & entrepreneurs
- SME managers responsible for IT security
- Professional services firms
- Anyone wanting practical cyber protection advice
Every episode delivers actionable cybersecurity advice that you can implement immediately, featuring real UK case studies
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If Your MSP Says ‘All Good’, Can They Prove It?
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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MFA Fatigue Is a Management Failure, Not a User Problem
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May 31, 2026 |
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Shadow AI Is Just Shadow IT Wearing a Cape
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May 30, 2026 |
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Pop-Ups, Upsells & Risk: Taming the Noisy World of SaaS Admin Dashboards
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May 29, 2026 |
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AI vs The Patch Queue: When Faster Discovery Breaks Business
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May 28, 2026 |
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When Cybercrime Stops the Till: Why It's a Business Problem, Not IT's
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May 27, 2026 |
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Don't Worship the Green Tick: Why Backups Won't Save You
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May 26, 2026 |
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The 75¢ Clue: How a Tiny Billing Error Unmasked a Cold War Hacker
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May 25, 2026 |
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Curiosity Is a Cybersecurity Control: The Cheapest Defense You're Ignoring
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May 24, 2026 |
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Your CCTV Is Listening: The Cameras You Forgot Are a Cyber Problem
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May 23, 2026 |
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The Coffee Shop Myth — How Identity, Not Wi‑Fi, Lets Attackers In
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May 22, 2026 |
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Square-Wheeled Security: Inside a Vendor Meeting That Failed Small Business
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May 21, 2026 |
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When the Authenticator Stops Being a Shield: CVE‑2026‑41615 Exposed
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May 20, 2026 |
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When Cybercrime Became a Business: IOCTA 2026 Exposes the Machine
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May 19, 2026 |
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We Got the Cyber Headline Wrong: The 43% That Isn’t What It Seems
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May 18, 2026 |
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Private Life on Display: How Endpoint Compromise Exposed a Celebrity
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May 17, 2026 |
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Yellowkey Exposed: Why BitLocker 'On' Isn't Enough
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May 16, 2026 |
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Monopoly, Neglect and a Near‑Million Pound Fine: Lessons from South Staffordshire Water
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May 15, 2026 |
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Patch Tuesday May 2026 — 4 Fixes That Matter to Every UK Small Business
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May 13, 2026 |
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The £10k False Economy: When Cheap IT Becomes Your Biggest Liability
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May 11, 2026 |
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When Germany's .de Went Missing: A DNSSEC Fable of One Bad Signature
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May 07, 2026 |
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Chrome's Hidden AI: The 4GB Surprise Eating Your Disk and Bandwidth
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May 06, 2026 |
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Why 43% of UK Businesses Got Hit — and Why the Basics Let Them Down
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May 04, 2026 |
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Cyber UK 2026: The Front Line Arrives — What Small Businesses Must Do Now
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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"It's Not DNS" — Until It Is: The Office Mystery That Always Blames the Translator
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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167 CVEs and Counting: Patch Tuesday Throws the Kitchen Sink
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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From Tokens to Copilot: Fixing the Gaps in Your Microsoft 365 Defenses
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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When Your Cyber Insurance Says 'No': How One Form Field Can Cost You Millions
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Digital Sour Milk: When Your Tech's 'Still Turns On' is a GDPR Time Bomb
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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When Confidence Becomes the Vulnerability: How Ego Opens the Door to Breaches
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Don’t Buy the Badge: The Real SMB 1001 Guide for UK Small Businesses
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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March 2026 Patch Tuesday — Take It or Stay Vulnerable
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Willow vs Danzel — Navigating Cyber Essentials V3.3 Before the Deadline
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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They're Not 'Hacking' — They're Logging In: The Dangerous Myth Small Businesses Fall For
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Three and a Half Pence: The Currys Breach That Took Nine Years to Matter
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Locked In: Palantir, Microsoft and the Hidden Political Risk in Your Cloud
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Edge Devices Under Siege — 393 Days of Unnoticed Access
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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February 2026 Patch Tuesday: Six Actively Exploited Flaws — DWM Strikes Twice
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Four Campaigns, One Nightmare: How 2026's Attacks Bypass Every Small-Business Defence
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Security Theatre Exposed — Passkeys, the CISA Leak, and the Hidden Value in Your Cyber Insurance
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Who’s in Charge When Ransomware Hits? Building Your Incident Response Team
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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114 Updates, 1 Active Exploit — January Patch Tuesday: Patch Today or Pay Tomorrow
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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UK Government Admits Cyber Chaos — 28% of Systems ‘Cannot Be Defended’: What SMBs Need to Know
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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When MFA Isn’t Enough: Inside Adversary‑in‑the‑Middle Attacks
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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3AM Ringtone of Doom? Build Your 6-Module Incident Response Plan
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Facepalm Retrospective: 2025’s Greatest Cyber Fails — From 123456 to the Louvre
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Boards, Breaches and Accountability: Why Small Firms Need Risk Registers Now
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Urgent: Patch CVE-2025-62221 — December Patch Tuesday Breakdown
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The Printer Is Watching: How Your Office Gear Is the Biggest Cyber Threat
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Reverse Benchmarking: Learn from the Biggest Cyber Faceplants
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Prison for Negligent Directors? Rebooting UK Cyber Enforcement
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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When Ransomware Kills: Should Directors Face Prison for Cyber Negligence?
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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November Patch Tuesday Storm: Zero‑Days, Exchange Exploits & WSUS Emergency
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Big Brother Is Watching Your VPN — The Online Safety Act Unpacked
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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From SMS to FIDO2: A Small Business Guide to Phishing‑Resistant Authentication
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Ignored Audits, Ancient Servers, and a Cherry Picker — Inside the Louvre Jewel Robbery
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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No More Excuses: Cyber Essentials Forces MFA on Every Cloud Service (Apr 2026)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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FinalSpark, Ethics & Security: What Living-Neuron Computers Mean for Your Company
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Ghosts in the Machine — Halloween Special: When Your Tools Turn on You
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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The Doorman Fallacy: How Cost Cuts Become Catastrophes
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Beds, Bins and DNS: How One AWS Region Outage Sank the Smart Home
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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InfoSec vs CyberSec vs IT Security: Stop Wasting Money on the Wrong One | UK SMB Reality Check
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Discord's Data Breach and the UK's Digital ID Debacle
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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172 Security Holes Just Got Patched - But Is YOUR Business Already Compromised?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Why the Chancellor Just Wrote to UK CEOs: Cyber Attacks Surge 50%
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Extra Credit: The Corrections, The Code, and The Safeguarding Bombshell
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Detention: The Day 8,000 Children's Data Went Missing
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Why Windows 11 25H2 Is a Quiet Security Game-Changer
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Your 3-Year-Old's Data Is on the Dark Web Right Now: The Kido Wake-Up Call
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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When Teen Hackers Test Your Defences: Lessons from the School Yard to the Boardroom
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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£80M Blow: How Teenagers and One Phone Call Bankrupted Co-op's Cybersecurity
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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DORA's Wake-Up Call: How JLR and Collins Aerospace Exposed a New Regulatory Storm
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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One IT Manager, Massive Risk: Burnout, Sabotage and System Failures
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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EXPOSED: The £200k Mistake 90% of Small Businesses Make (Dave From IT Isn’t Supposed To Run Your Technology Strategy!)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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81 Security Patches + Windows 10’s Final Countdown: What Every Business Owner Must Know
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Electoral Commission: 40 Million Hacked, Zero Fines - But Small Businesses Pay Thousands for Less
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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60% of Small Businesses DIE After Cyberattacks - Are You Next?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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48 Hours to Zero: How Ransomware Destroyed a 158-Year Business
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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EXPOSED: How One Weak Password Killed a 158-Year-Old Company & Cost 2,000+ Jobs (The UK Cyber Graveyard)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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The Shocking Truth About What Actually Works in Small Business Cybersecurity
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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AI Cyber Threats Target Small Business - insights from DefCon 33 & Black Hat 2025
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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When Your Safety Net Becomes the Target
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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White House CIO Insights Part 3 - Advanced Threats & AI
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The UK Government’s Ransomware Gambit: Why Your SMB Just Became a Bigger Target
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Help Desk MFA Reset Fails: Scattered Spider vs. UK Retail
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Orwell was right - Big Brother is Watching just 41 year late - UK Online Protection Act is here!
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Cyber Essentials - White House Security Principles for UK Small Business
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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White House CIO Insights - The Threat Landscape Small Business Faces
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The Hidden Dangers of Technical Debt
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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McDonalds’ SuperSized Cyber Screw Up
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Shadow IT - The Unauthorised Technology That’s Already Inside Your Business
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Supply Chain Security - Your Weakest Link
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Special Briefing - Middle East Cybersecurity Threats to UK SMBs
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Passwords are dead, Long live passwords
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Patch Tuesday and the Relentless Race
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Certification Without Security
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Outsmarted by Deception
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Jun 02, 2025 |