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Small retailers have less to fear from hackers, experts say |
January 26, 2014
Traditional security defenses that would have failed against sophisticated attacks like the one against Target are still necessary in protecting small businesses, experts say.
The malware used in the Target attack was built to avoid detection by antivirus software and in fact eluded discovery by the more than 40 AV tools found on the site virustotal.com, the security blog KrebsonSecurity reported.
Such levels of sophistication used in attacks targeted at specific companies are unlikely to be used against small retailers, which need to build defenses against run-of-the-mill attacks against PCs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2091402/small-retailers-have-less-to-fear-from-hackers-experts-say.html#tk.rss_all
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