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Hot Takes Hot Takes is the sharp, fast moving opinion show from The Small Business Cyber Security Guy team. This is where we cut through the noise, the vendor nonsense, the breathless headlines, and the cyber doom theatre that small businesses get served far too often. Each episode takes one current cyber security story, claim, breach, statistic, policy change, or industry talking point and asks the question that actually matters: What does this mean for a real small business? Expect blunt analysis, practical advice, and a healthy suspicion of anyone trying to sell fear in a shiny PDF. We cover topics including cyber attacks, data breaches, ransomware, supply chain risk, Microsoft 365 security, compliance, Cyber Essentials, bad MSP behaviour, weak governance, and the many creative ways organisations manage to trip over their own shoelaces. No hoodies. No Matrix code. No corporate fog machine. Just straight talk, useful context, and clear takeaways for business owners, directors, IT teams, and anyone else trying to keep the lights on without becoming a full time cyber security analyst. Bold opinions. Practical advice. Made for small businesses.
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Your Business Is an Open Book Most small businesses have been building a public intelligence profile for years without realising it. Every LinkedIn update, team photo, and website contact page adds detail to a picture th
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Cyber Essentials Platform Transition: What the July Deadline Means for You The Cyber Essentials scheme is transitioning from its Willow platform to the new Danzell version, with a go-live date now set for 6 July. Noel Br
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Passkeys Are Not Magic, But They Are Better Than Passwords Noel Bradford examines passkeys, a rare security improvement that reduces phishing risk and removes the burden of password memorisation. Drawing on NCSC guidance
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MFA Fatigue Is a Management Failure, Not a User Problem Multi-factor authentication is essential, but not all MFA is equal. When users receive vague, repeated, or poorly explained prompts, they start treating them like c
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WiFi Surveillance: When Your Router Becomes a Camera WiFi feels like plumbing. It’s boring, invisible, and trusted by default. But research from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology shows that ordinary WiFi signals can now
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When Your SaaS Dashboard Looks Like Times Square SaaS dashboards are increasingly cluttered with upsells, AI buttons, trial offers, and partner adverts, turning essential admin portals into noisy digital shopping centres
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AI Vulnerability Discovery Will Make Patch Queues Worse AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is accelerating the rate at which security flaws are found and reported. For researchers and vendors, this is progress. For smal
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Cyber Crime Is a Business Risk, Not Just an IT Budget Line Cyber crime has become a mainstream business risk, yet many UK SMBs still treat it as an IT problem to be quietly managed between printer issues and password res
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The Backup Lie: Why Green Ticks Won’t Save Your Business Most small businesses have backups. Few have tested recovery plans. In this uncompromising episode, Noel Bradford dismantles the dangerous assumption that backup e
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Shadow AI Is Just Shadow IT Wearing a Cape Shadow AI has already arrived in most UK small businesses, often through browser tabs, SaaS tool sidebars, and helpful buttons that promise to improve text. Staff are using AI t
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Curiosity as a Control: Why Asking Questions Beats Buying Tools Noel Bradford argues that curiosity is one of the cheapest and most overlooked security controls in small business cyber defence. Many organisations inadver
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CCTV Is a Networked Computer System with Cameras (and Possibly Microphones) Noel Bradford challenges the persistent misconception that CCTV sits outside the cyber security estate. Many small businesses still treat camera
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Cyber Security Is Not Broadband Noel Bradford unpacks a vendor meeting that went sideways and exposes a wider problem in the small business cyber market. As the UK’s cyber security sector grows to 2,603 firms generating
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Microsoft Authenticator Isn’t Magic: The Token Leak Nobody Wants to Talk About Microsoft Authenticator has become the identity gatekeeper for millions of Microsoft 365 users, but CVE-2025-41615 exposes a critical flaw th
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Europol Just Admitted Cybercrime Is an Industry Europol’s IOCTA 2026 report, published on 28 April 2025, describes cybercrime not as isolated attacks but as a connected industrial economy. More than 120 active ransomware
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The Celebrity Stalkerware Leak: Not Encryption, Endpoint Compromise In late April 2026, headlines screamed about 86,000 private screenshots leaked from a prominent European celebrity’s phone. The story dominated tech pre
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YellowKey and the BitLocker Assurance Problem Noel Bradford delivers a direct examination of YellowKey, the reported BitLocker bypass that exploits the Windows Recovery Environment on TPM-only configurations. This episod
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