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How secure are your small business assets from fraud, identity theft and cybercrime?
Sixty-five percent of surveyed businesses said they are not sufficiently budgeted for online security. The number increases to 71 percent for those with revenues under $10 million. Small businesses also have a higher fraud rate than larger companies and non-business owners. One of the most frequent sources of fraud is credit card abuse – largely due to the fact that few business owners actually take the time to go through every line item on their bill or choose to mingle business and personal accounts.
A Russian malware called SoakSoak has infected over 100,000 WordPress sites since Sunday, December 14th, turning blogs into attack platforms. The malware attempts to install dangerous programs on your computer that could possibly steal or delete your information. In an attempt to curb the damage, more than 11,000 websites have been blacklisted by Google after they were found infected. According to security firm Sucuri, which is the first security firm that reported on the blacklisting, the malware uses a vulnerability in a slideshow plug-in called Slider Revolution. The Slider Revolution team have already fixed it with updates. Unfortunately, the problem is that the old, vulnerable version of the plug-in is still bundled with WordPress themes, so lots of sites are still using the wrong version. SoakSoak modifies a file in infected sites’ WordPress installation, then it loads a JavaScript malware from the soaksoak.ru domain, which is where the malware’s name comes from.