‘How Hackers Steal Trade Secrets By Targeting Smaller Companies’ – ‘ReadWrite’

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “How Hackers Steal Trade Secrets By Targeting Smaller Companies”.

Antone Gonsalves says, “Cyberespionage is usually considered a threat to government agencies and large corporations such as defense contractors and banks. But a new Verizon report on data breaches finds that cyberspies are going after small organizations with the same enthusiasm they once reserved for big outfits.

It’s A Small Cyberworld

Not surprisingly, 95% of the state-affiliated attacks aimed at stealing intellectual property, which included classified information, trade secrets and technical resources, originated from China last year, according to the 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report. No organization, no matter how small, was safe”.

How Hackers Steal Trade Secrets By Targeting Smaller Companies

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