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Think your antivirus software is enough to protect your business from outside threats? Think again. Hackers today are smart and trained programmers who are looking for any vulnerable spot in your computers. The recent Confickr worm even took advantage of social-engineering tactics. Monte Robertson, president and CEO of Software Security Solutions, explains how smaller companies can keep up with the evolution of security threats.
bMighty: What security threats should small to midsize businesses be aware of?
Monte Robertson: The latest threats are from professionally trained programmers. It used to be that the hackers were the "geeks in the basement," and all they did was put out code to wipe out hard drives. But today these are highly organized groups that are trained programmers who understand how to write malicious code to compromise systems. It's a huge market for malicious software that's attracting professionally trained folks. What they're doing is creating malware that is Web-based, and they'll take advantage of a number of threats to compromise Web servers and send out e-mails and even take out ads to draw people to Web sites.
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