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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

The company got its start in 2002 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, as a two-man operation that set out to help small firms filter the early waves of email spam. In 2017, for instance, SMBs were under tremendous pressure to defend their networks against rapidly morphing ransomware attacks.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The Treasury alleged Suex helped to process millions in criminal transactions, including the proceeds of numerous ransomware attacks. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S.