Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms
SmartBriefs for CFOs cites a Wall Street Journal article noting security specialists say computer hackers are moving on to the small-business community in their search for targets. U.S. Secret Service data show that 63% of attacks in 2010 were aimed at companies with fewer than 100 employees, while Visa says 95% of the card-data breaches it sees are from small-business customers. Experts blame smaller security budgets and lower levels of technical expertise, with one survey showing that about half of small businesses had conducted a system-wide security assessment.
