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Three Common Cybersecurity Threats Small Businesses Should Be Worried About

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As a small business, you’re likely concerned with drawing traffic and visitors to your site – but you may be attracting the wrong kind of attention. No matter how small your business is, you’re not too small to be hacked. In fact, 50% of small businesses in the US have been breached.

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Your Small Business Cybersecurity Guide to the Most Common Cyberthreats

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However, the truth is that businesses of all sizes hold valuable data in their hands, and cybercriminals work to create new sophisticated attack methods to acquire this information. An unfortunate reality for SMBs is that 43% of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Noisy Cybersecurity Risks for SMBs.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 377

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Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4 Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

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As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords. bank accounts. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets.

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News Alert: HostingAdvice poll finds one in three Americans hacked upon visiting sketchy websites

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Of those, more than half (58%) said their biggest security concerns when visiting a small business website is “insecure transactions” (where credit card info could get stolen), other concerns include: •55% – It may be a fake website (website that poses as a real one) •51% – Phishing Attacks (hackers targeting my email or social media accounts) (..)

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What Do the Pentagon and Facebook Have in Common? Website Security.

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This particular password flaw gave cyber criminals access to accounts without the account owner’s knowledge. Once in, he was able to set up a new password, which would essentially lock the real user out of their own Facebook account. Fifty percent of small businesses have been the target of a cyber attack.

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Identifying Common Types of Cyberattacks

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While large-scale attacks on enterprise organizations are the most widely publicized, small businesses can be just as vulnerable and targeted by cybercriminals. In fact, nearly 60% of small businesses have reported being a victim of a cyberattack. DDoS Attacks. Redirects.