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There’s no doubt that small businesses are under attack from hackers and cyber-criminals. Typically, small companies have less secure networks and looser security standards, making them easy targets.
The latest Threat Report from McAfee Labs details the types of attacks against small businesses. The chart shows the most common network attacks detected in Q1 2015.
Denial of service attacks – 37%
A denial of service (DOS) attack attempts to make a resource, such as a web server, unavailable to users. These attacks are very common, accounting for more than one-third of all network attacks reviewed in the report.
A common approach is to overload the resource with illegitimate requests for service. The resource cannot process the flood of requests and either slows or crashes. [Read more…] about Top Seven Network Attack Types So Far In 2015