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Three Common Cybersecurity Threats Small Businesses Should Be Worried About

SiteLock

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

SiteLock

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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Top 9 Cybersecurity Challenges SMEs Currently Face

Responsible Cyber

Phishing and Spear Phishing. Despite constant warnings from the cyber security industry, people still fall victim to phishing every day. As cybercrime has become well-funded and increasingly sophisticated, phishing remains one of the most effective methods used by criminals to introduce malware into businesses.

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

The Last Watchdog

The additional result of these hacks include: •51% had their information phished •43% had credit card information stolen •35% had their username and password stolen •17% had their identity stolen or cloned Additionally, the study found that a large majority of Americans (75%) harbor genuine concerns about visiting websites that do not look secure.

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Over 65% of companies were targeted twice with cyber attacks within a year

CyberSecurity Insiders

According to a report titled Cymulate Data Breaches Study, most of the attacks reached the corporate networks through phishing emails. Coming to the cyber attack variants, over 55% of the registered attacks were of malware variant, while 40% were related to ransomware and 32% of Ddos. While 1% of them emerged via insider threats.

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A week in security (August 16 – August 22)

Malwarebytes

How to spot a DocuSign phish and what to do about it. Cisco Small Business routers vulnerable to remote attacks, won’t get a patch. Largest DDoS attack ever reported gets hoovered up by Cloudflare. Analysts “strongly believe” the Russian state colludes with ransomware gangs. macOS 11 ’s hidden security improvements.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 319

Security Affairs

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