CYBER INSIGHTS: Tuesday 01 October 2024 – Today’s SME Cybersecurity News & Intelligence

1). UK: TELECOMS – Telecom giant identifies 2,000 potential Cybersecurity Attacks Every Second. The data, unveiled at BT’s Secure Tomorrow cyber security festival at its Adastral Park research centre, showed that web-connected devices are scanned over 1,000 times a day by known malicious sources – an average of once every 90 seconds. While some scans are conducted legitimately for security monitoring, three in four (78%) are not harmless – indicating that hackers are looking for weaknesses in the online systems of businesses and essential public services, as smart tech becomes common.