There is a sense of violation in being the victim of a cyberattack: ‘Why me?’ As Nick Peters reports, the truth is that everyone is a target and it’s only the ones who fail to defend themselves properly who will be hit.
It’s a disturbing thought that every second of every day, there are hunters scouring the internet for companies like yours who may have forgotten to lock their cyber doors. Their goal: either to hijack the unwitting target’s computers for nefarious ends, like mining cryptocurrency, which takes vast amounts of computing power and energy, or to…
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