Hackers targeting small, mid-sized businesses

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Virtually all companies doing business online are potential targets for cyber-criminals, regardless of their size. Smaller businesses may be especially vulnerable to online crime because they have limited budgets for web security and few if any technology experts on staff, officials said.

“The hacker community is smart. They have realized that this group of small and medium-sized businesses don’t have the capabilities that some of the larger organizations have and they become very easy targets,” said Vikram Sethi, director of the Wright State Institute of Defense Studies and Education.

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