Top 5 Reasons Your Small Business Website is Under Attack

  • 26 August 2014
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By: Chris Weltzien Posted on 8/26/2014
 
There is no such thing as "too small to hack." If a business has a website, hackers can exploit it.
I was recently looking for a place to board our cat this summer, and one business had on its home page, underneath the name of the company, the words “Viagra discounts” in small but legible type. Assuming the company isn’t branching out from felines to pharmaceuticals, why would this appear on its website? The answer, of course, is that the company didn’t put it there, and was probably unaware of it altogether.
When small business owners think about website security at all, their attitude is usually something along the lines of, “Why would anyone attack us? We’re not a bank and we don’t store credit card data.” Once the company sets up its website, it “sets it and forgets it.” It may check its search ranking once in a while to be sure it hasn’t been blacklisted by Google, but that’s as far as it is likely to go. However, hackers are attacking small business websites with increasing frequency and sophistication: In the cyber-attack ecosystem small business websites are both an attack platform and an attack target.
Unfortunately, the current upward trend of small businesses managing their own websites will only amplify this problem. The National Small Business Association 2013 Technology Survey found that nearly two-thirds of small businesses maintain their own websites, up 15% from the 2010 report. Meanwhile the report indicates that 64% of companies consider the time required to simply maintain the site “a major challenge.”
 
DarkReading/ full article here/ http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/top-5-reasons-your-small-business-website-is-under-attack/a/d-id/1298211?

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