{"id":3711,"date":"2024-02-14T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberinsights.argusgpi.com\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2024-05-09T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T10:20:24","slug":"daily-cyber-insights-for-140224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/daily-cyber-insights-for-140224\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY CYBER INSIGHTS: The Latest SME Cybersecurity\u00a0 News & Intel for Wednesday, 14 February 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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DAILY CYBER INSIGHTS: The Latest SME Cybersecurity\u00a0 News & Analysis for Wednesday, 14 February 2024<\/strong>
\nWritten & Curated By\u00a0Iain Fraser \u2013 SME Cybersecurity Journalist<\/a>
\nIainFRASER.net\/CYBERInsights<\/a>
\nDaily Cyber Insights<\/a>
\nGoogle Indexed on 140224 at 09:50 CET<\/a>
\n#CYBERInsights\u00a0 #CybersecurityJournalist\u00a0 #SMECybersecurity<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. CYBERSECURITY\/BEST ADVICE: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY<\/strong> Drafting and Creating a Tailored Crisis Management Plan for your Small Business\/SME<\/p>\n

2. PASSWORD POLICY:<\/strong> There are many articles that highlight ridiculous scenarios of Staff giving away their Passwords for Chocolate – Creating an SME<\/strong> Password Policy<\/p>\n

3. DDoS<\/a>:<\/strong> News has reached me that 3 million electric toothbrushes have been infected with Java malware to conduct DDoS attacks – Brush up on your “Smart Security<\/a><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

4. SECURING YOUR FUTURE: ANALYSIS –<\/strong> Rundown of the Key Cyberthreats that your SME<\/strong> need to be aware of in 2024<\/p>\n

5. CYBER THREAT INTEL:<\/strong> AON<\/strong> Survey – identifies one in five Irish firms suffered a “Cyber Attack” last year (2023) Business leaders to increase budgets<\/p>\n

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INVESTIGATION: THE SMALL BUSINESS LOAN SCAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

This model of the Small Business Loan Scam started during the Covid Pandemic and true to form the Scammers were offering “Guaranteed” Small Business<\/strong> Loans. Well, I have to report that the Business Loan Scam<\/strong> is rearing its ugly head. Register Free to read my full investigation and report in to this scourge on struggling SMEs\/Small Businesses.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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CYBERSECURITY EVENTS – EUROPE | LIVE & VIRTUAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

29\/02\/2024 LIVE EVENT: THE FRAUD CONFERENCE<\/strong> | 29 February 2024 | Royal College of Physicians, London. Learn More \/…\u00a0<\/a>
\n31\/05\/2024 ONLINE EVENT: SANS INSTITUTE –<\/strong> Ransomware Summit 2024 | 31 May 2024 | Live Online – Learn More \/…<\/a><\/p>\n

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CYBER VOICE\/PR WIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

GARTNER: <\/strong>Roll out the AI Opportunity Radar to your executive team. Learn More \/\u2026<\/a>
\nVEEAM:<\/strong> Cybersecurity Best Practices and Hybrid Cloud Resilience. Learn More \/…<\/a><\/strong>
\nSME RESOURCES:<\/strong> Why Choose Datadog? Full-Stack Observability. Learn More \/…<\/strong><\/a>
\nSPLUNK:<\/strong> Best practices for practical observability – must-read report. Learn More \/…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[419],"ppma_author":[415],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberinsights","tag-cyberinsights"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Cybersecurity Journalist - Iain Fraser","author_link":false},"category_info":"SMECYBERIINSIGHTS<\/a>","tag_info":"SMECYBERIINSIGHTS","comment_count":"0","authors":[{"term_id":415,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cybersecurity-journalist-iain-fraser","display_name":"Cybersecurity Journalist - Iain Fraser","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/index_image440-removebg-preview.png","url2x":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/index_image440-removebg-preview.png"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smecyberinsights.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}