Uptick in Cyber Attacks on Small Businesses
New data suggests that cyber attacks aimed at smaller businesses have increased markedly over the past six months, a finding that dovetails with my own reporting on businesses that are suffering six-figure losses from sophisticated cyber heists.
According to Symantec, attacks against small businesses doubled in the first six months of 2012 compared to the latter half of 2011. In its June intelligence report, the security firm found that 36 percent of all targeted attacks (58 per day) during the last six months were directed at businesses with 250 or fewer employees. That figure was 18 percent at the end of Dec. 2011.
