Stopping Cyber Criminals

Apparently, cyber crimes cost the economy over $1 Trillion a year. Clearly a problem. Are you someone that could be threatened by a cyber crime? Many of these crimes aren't against big corporate accounts, but small businesses. Gone are the days where crooks are just taking a shipping box off the back steps of your business. Now they are hidden on the other side of the world behind their computers.

It makes sense that they go after small businesses. There is money there, and the security is often pretty lax.

The truth is that small businesses are increasingly becoming some of the most attractive targets today for enterprising cyberthieves. Take Support.com, for instance. The relatively small remote technical-support provider of about 600 employees finds its website under constant attack, says Mazdak Hashemi, head of technical operations at the company.

"Even though we're a small player, we're getting attacks from all over the world," Hashemi says. "We're not a big name that people hear about all the time, but apparently we have some interesting stuff that people are interested in stealing or abusing."