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Volume 33 | August 2014

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12 | THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL www.datacenterjournal.com A s high-profile security breaches involving major household names continue to make headlines, the challenge for businesses, and SMBs in particular, is to understand the threats and determine how best to protect their data and respond in the event of a security breach. Feedly and Evernote have both fallen victim to DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks recently, and Dominos Pizzas was threatened for ransom with publication of more than 600,000 customer records in France and Belgium. ankfully, no credit-card de- tails or other financial data was stolen in this case, but the the of personal infor- mation is always bad news for custom- ers—especially passwords, since, sadly, many people use the same passwords for many or all of their online accounts. Although DDoS attacks are more likely to target big businesses, the fact that CryptoLocker has once again ap- peared in the news is certainly some- thing that smaller businesses should be Tackling Today's Security reats BY PAUL BURNS IT SECURITY

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