WSJ: “Keeping Your Site Out of Hackers’ Clutches”

This article in the Wall Street Journal is worth reading if you (or your clients) run a small business website.

Excerpts:

“In the first half of this year, 61% of the Web’s top 100 sites delivered something malicious to visitors because a hacker broke in and planted something nefarious”

“Attackers are increasingly infiltrating small businesses’ Web sites and using them to quietly drop malicious programs, typically designed to steal personal financial information, onto the computers of visitors, security experts say. Some are also digging around in databases for valuable information or trying to capture e-commerce customers’ credit-card numbers. Small businesses often assume that they are too tiny to catch hackers’ attention. But the truth is that hackers don’t care who you are. Most of the time, they use automated programs to exploit a flaw in some piece of common software used by millions and attack them en masse.”

The article also has some helpful tips and resources.

Good luck!