Friday, June 25, 2010

small and medium-sized businesses & cybercrime victims

The latest survey found that 22 per cent of all emails received by the 510 surveyed firms were spam, and that 23 per cent of respondents had been affected by a phishing scam.

Assuming each employee receives 20 spam emails each business day and works 225 days a year, respondents are collectively having to find time to delete nearly 250,000 spam emails a year," Symantec said.

Symantec said small and medium-size businesses could protect their information by educating their staff about cybercrime, developing security policies and deploying a comprehensive security solution across their business

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