(EPA/Ritchie B. Tongo)If you’re running a small or medium-sized business your website is likely under attack — and it could lead to some very bad things. A new report from security firm Sitelock has revealed that the typical small business website is attacked 44 times a day and software “bots” are visiting these sites globally an average of 152 million times a week. It’s because if our website is hacked by malicious software then it’s possible that our internal systems connected to it could be vulnerable to ransomware and other attacks. Unfortunately, most small business owners either aren’t aware of these issues or don’t spend enough on the right security software and training to minimize these problems. “Hence, whenever a ransomware attack happens, they often end up having to pay the ransom to rescue their data.”

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2018 15:56 UTC