SMBs are open to two main types of cyber attacks – those targeted directly at an organisation and the mass shotgun attack style designed to infect anyone and everyone. Here’s five easy ways businesses can protect themselves online.
Staying out of trouble online and protecting your personal details should be pretty easy right? Not anymore. Hamish Anderson blogs about how easy it is to be duped by online scams that appear to come from trusted and recognisable sources.
In a guest post for Dynamic Business, Symantec’s David Dzienciol takes a look at how businesses can move from talking about cloud technology, to shifting systems into the cloud.
Hamish Anderson offers up some easy ways to lessen the amount of spam your business receives.
“…stopping spam takes more than luck; it takes vigilance, common sense, a team who follow your IT policy and a solution you can depend on.”
The leakage of confidential data can be catastrophic for SMBs, in terms of remedial costs and reputational damage. To protect against these attacks, SMBs first need to understand what ‘social engineering’ is and the various forms these attacks can take.
There are many advantages for small businesses in using cloud computing, but they are also under attack on a daily basis from cybercriminals.
Hamish Anderson blogs about new cyber threats every business needs to be aware of.
“Smishing is the use of SMS and bogus phone calls to dupe a recipient into providing personal information to a hacker – akin to a phishing scam.”
Facebook unveiled a raft of changes at this year’s f8 Developer Conference, many of which have left security experts concerned about a rise in Twitter-style spambots as well as targeted cybercrime attacks on users.
Over 25 percent of small businesses around the world have chosen AVG as their internet security provider, according to newly released GfK figures.
The online security landscape this year has been dominated by high-profile hacking attacks against governments and corporations, with a new security report showing malware attacks remain the biggest the internet threat to all computer users.
