Phishing attacks target UK SMBs

According to a new study 43 percent of UK SMBs have suffered phishing attacks involving attempts to impersonate staff in the last year. More concerning is that of those attacks 66 percent were successful in compromising data. The study from security and data anlaytics company CybSafe also finds only 47 percent of those surveyed say they have already got a cyber security training and awareness program in place. "Phishing is currently the dominant attack vector for entry into networks, and its popularity isn’t hard to understand," says Oz Alashe, CEO of CybSafe. "It's easy to carry out, easy to profit… [Continue Reading]