A Small Business With No Working Website, Felled by a Cyberattack

Small businesses are increasingly battling costly cyberattacks. Sometimes the pain is enough to put them out of business.

In January, cyber thieves ran roughly 100,000 stolen card numbers through the payment system of Innovative Higher Ed Consulting Inc., a two-person startup in New York. Soon after, Bank of America Merchant Services, the startup’s payment processor, sent a $27,000 bill for reversing the charges.

Can Hillary Clinton help them?

Did anyone else think that was Rosanne for a second?

'IHEC’s owners say they didn’t turn on the security features because the payment system wasn’t yet linked to the company’s website, which was still under construction.' Seen this time and again. Hire and/or outsource experts, this is not a do-it-yourself job.

Small businesses are required to use Microsoft Windows in order to remain in good standing with bbb_us USChamber & other obligatory business clubs. Linux & OpenSource on the desktop are prohibited by the prevailing communist-socialist cottage-industry cooperative culture.

They should go with Amazon, Google or Microsoft

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