Indian SMBs facing advanced attack threats

India’s growing urban population is under concerted cyber attack as criminals increasingly focus advanced targeted techniques on small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and look to exploit piecemeal security and low levels of awareness, according to the latest report from Symantec. The security giant’s Internet Security …

[Anonymous Coward]

let me guess

Most of these attacks consist of someone phoning up and pretending to work for Microsoft and telling you that your PC has been hacked and that they need the IP address so they can RDP into it and ... and ...

Still it's a boon for the attackers - no international phone charges, more profit!

[Anonymous Coward]

surely Packtivists

How did you let that opportunity slip by?

[ph3d]

Title Fail.

[Anonymous Coward]

So when they said when your role goes to India you are welcome to move too, that's what they meant!

[Anonymous Coward]

Not surprised

Indian companies in my experience during the past three years of attempting to sell them solutions for DR etc show that they have little knowledge or any eagerness to deploy security solutions of any kind. All they look at is the cost and value their data safety likewise.

When you consider that banks think that 4-5 hours of downtime is acceptable ... what can one say!