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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

The company got its start in 2002 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, as a two-man operation that set out to help small firms filter the early waves of email spam. In 2018, attackers shifted their focus to refining and deploying banking trojans, which essentially act as spyware. Talk more soon. Last Watchdog’s Sue Poremba contributing.).

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. He is arrested and sentenced to 20 months in prison.