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Researchers have observed a new skimmer from the prolific Magecart Group that has been actively harvesting payment-card data from 19 different victim websites, mainly belonging to small- and medium-sized businesses, for several months. "In some cases, we've seen MakeFrame using compromised sites for all three of its functions - hosting the skimming code itself, loading the skimmer on other compromised websites and exfiltrating the stolen data," Herman and Ihm wrote.

"Data protection can come into play in a wide array of important ways - including data security and encryption, data recovery, email protection and data archiving. It also provides the ability to recover quickly from a disaster, protection from and mitigation of ransomware, and physical device protection. Plus, it can prevent user error," said Reeder. Top executives in education see data backup and data recovery as the most important aspects of data protection.

World Backup Day is March 31, and while cyberattacks are a potential threat to their data, many SMBs say they don't have a data backup or disaster recovery process, according to data protection company Infrascale. Among them, 49% said that cyberattacks are their biggest concern when it comes to protecting data, while 58% pointed to security vulnerabilities as their biggest data storage challenge.

An alarming number of SMBs in the US and UK are not prepared for a potential cyber attack or breach, BullGuard warns. One-third of companies with 50 or fewer employees report using free, consumer-grade cybersecurity, and one in five companies use no endpoint security whatsoever.

Leading the way is a Privileged Access Management solution called Devolutions Password Server, which provides enterprise-grade PAM features that offer SMBs a level of protection usually only afforded to large organizations. While every business is a potential target, SMBs face unique challenges from their enterprise counterparts - yet the majority of IT software solutions currently available are complex and go well beyond what most SMBs require.

Zyxel Communications launched the ZyWALL VPN1000 VPN Firewall, an all-in-one security solution for small and medium businesses. The flagship of the growing Zyxel family of ZyWALL VPN firewalls, VPN1000 is an integrated security solution that combines a powerful firewall with high-performance VPN tunnel capabilities to protect the local network against threats and safeguard data communications between multiple locations or hybrid clouds.

With cybersecurity concerns already mounting ahead of the 2020 presidential election, SMB executives are turning their attention to how these threats could impact their own business. The threat of...

Larger SMBs are more likely to feel targeted by APTs.

An increasing number of US executives expressed concern about the prevalence of threats coming from foreign powers.

Ransomware remains the most common cyber threat to SMBs, according to a Datto survey of more than 1,400 MSP decision makers that manage the IT systems for small-to-medium-sized businesses. SMBs...