Why Cybercriminals are targeting Small Businesses

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Why Cybercriminals are targeting small businesses
In todays scenario, cyber crimes are the biggest
thread all over the world. From top level
software companies to small level business
everyone is facing this problem. Programmers try
to develop many security or firewalls but still
many websites get hacked every year. Although
cyber criminals target on every level, their
focus is small level business nowadays. There is
a news which comes in the newspaper recently
that professional web development company facing
major problem with their websites.so we have lots
of examples where many companies facing the same
problem and not able to find any solution for
this.
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What are cyber criminals? WHAT are cyber criminals
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Cybercriminals works is a gang of tech savvy,
well-funded, organized people, who are very
clever in their work. These people only work for
money. They can steal sensitive information,
credit cards numbers, passwords, corporate data
etc. they can either blackmail you for money,
hacked your account or sell your information to
the bulk on the internet. Cybercriminals work in
two ways. The first type of attempt by the cyber
criminals is when they take benefits of software
vulnerabilities to install malware. There are
various examples we find in our daily life where
we got different messages from malicious websites
that install malware in our system. The second
type of cyber hacking is called social
engineering. In these attempts, hackers try to
convince a user to open a link and these links
lead a user to forget page where they asked
username or password. This type of hacking is
known as phishing. Even cyber criminals give
you attractive schemes and convince a user to
send money to their account.
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Why they are targeting small businesses ?
The question which occurs in mind why cyber
criminal targeting small businesses when they can
frauds with big companies and get more money? The
answer is simple small businesses are easy to
hack because of fewer securities. These small
level companies do not focus have the proper
defense because of less awareness about security
purposes. They only focus on production or
development. They forget security is equally
important for an organization to grow. On the
other hand, bigger organization have tighter
security. These companies are not low hanging
fruit for hackers. They must put lots of efforts
and still they have high chances to get caught.
So nowadays small level businesses are an
appalling target for all the hackers as they
dont have any security solutions and information
infrastructure. So, they cannot find out frauds
and penetration. After knowing all the causes of
hacking, let's discuss how small level businesses
can protect their business from cyber criminals
so their website or business details would not be
hacked.
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Always create a unique and strong password- 
This is the basic and most important step which
everyone should take. You should not use those
passwords which are easy to guess for example
your name, loved ones name, company name etc. In
fact, if you want to increase security and
privacy then you should keep changing your
passwords within one month. Always try to make
unique passwords from the combination of
uppercase and lowercase letter, numeric value,
and alphanumeric values.
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Use a Separate computer for banking
transactions- 
This is one of the easiest ways to save your
business from the largest frauds. The
entrepreneur or business owner should always use
a dedicated computer for all the transaction and
financial accounts. There are various links which
come through email, social media or web surfing
should not be open on that computer. Always
review your banking transaction on daily basis
and do not share sensitive information with
anyone.
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Use card verification value(cvv) for customers 
Nowadays credit or debit cards are used for the
transaction. Every card has card verification
value which is on the back side of a card. This
code can prevent you from many transaction hacks.
You will get right details about the person
before and then he can finally purchase your
product or service. If you want more security
then you can provide OTP (one-time password) on
your customers mobile or system. So, you can
cross verify the customer and save your company
from a fraudulent buy.
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Don't use public Wifi-
If you are a business holder than always use your
private network for internet users. Sometimes
when we are traveling somewhere for a meeting or
anything we have used public WIFI network.it can
be harmful to your business. Public internet
connections could leak sensitive information or
data of your business because some other person
is also using the same network. So, no matter
what, if you are going for official purpose,
always use your private network.
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Train your employees-
This is the last but most important thing which
every business owner must do. The administration
educates their staff with basic security measures
so that they always get aware about the stuff.
Every security plan needs active participation so
every owner trains their employees about data
security and accuracy. If you follow these
security measures, you can save your business
from cyber criminals.