Cybersecurity proves to be a necessity for owner of Durham’s Cocoa Cinnamon

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/01/26/4502592_cybersecurity-proves-to-be-a-necessity.html

By Virgina Bridges
newsobserver.com
January 26, 2015

I could tell that Leon Grodski de Barrera was skeptical when I told him 
that my list of three things small-business owners should watch in 2015 
included cybersecurity.

Why would hackers be interested in the likes of his and his wife’s Durham 
coffee shop Cocoa Cinnamon, he asked, versus larger companies, such as 
recent high-profile, big company victims, such as Target, Home Depot and 
Sony?

Everything I was reading said that all business owners should be ensuring 
that they are updating their programs and protecting their systems because 
97 percent of companies would be breached.

Then I got an email from Grodski de Barrera.

“It’s funny,” he wrote. “Someone tried to hack our site, pretty soon after 
we spoke.”

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