Hackers are not just looking for large amounts of

credit cards like you see on TV and in the movies...

Common questions and statements heard by small businesses when discussing

hacking and cybersecurity:

✓ I don’t have anything hackers want

✓ I am too small; nobody can find me

✓ Nobody cares about what data I have

✓ I don’t have any data anyone wants

✓ I downloaded all kinds of super security software, I’m good

✓ I am not a target

✓ I can’t keep up with all those patches, because my hardware is too old

✓ Security software just slows down my computer

✓ I only browse to safe websites

✓ We don’t have the money to afford needless expenses

The reality is that anyone who uses a computer connected to the Internet is

susceptible to the threats that computer hackers and malware pose. Smaller

businesses also have less resources to spend on monitoring and defending their

computers, systems and networks. While at the same time, small businesses have

many different types of assets and data that hackers want and use. As large

organizations, governments and other businesses get better at cybersecurity, many

hackers will look for easier targets such as smaller businesses.

Small businesses are increasingly looked at as a gateway to larger businesses. For

that reason many large enterprises have instituted 3

party supplier security

assessments and do not accept bids or services from organizations that don’t meet

minimally acceptable security controls.

What Do Hackers Want With Me?

Don’t have anything they want?

Think you’re not a target? See how many of these items you

have that hackers want

Checklist for Small and Mid sized Businesses

 Have a business website? hackers can:

 Compromise your website to host malware, then

get other businesses and your users to download

 Host copyrighted material on your website, like

illegal movies, music, books or other digital

content

 Host child pornography, you get the blame and

they remain anonymous

 Send spam, you get the blame and they remain

anonymous

 Create a phishing site, a site that looks like

another site designed to steal your information

 Have an email account? Hackers can:

 Send scam emails from your account

 Harvest your address book and attack all your

friends

 Look through your email history to harvest

additional account information and credentials

you use on other sites

 Access to company email resources and

proprietary or even protected information

 Have social media accounts? Hackers can:

 Ruin your reputation by posting links to malware,

ads for enhancement medications or other

general spam

 Friend other hackers and expose all your

information and attack your friends

 Have a computer on-line? Hackers can:

 Install Ransomware

 Perform webcam image extortion, take pictures

of you through your webcam and threaten to

post them on the internet if you don’t pay money

 Add your computer to a bot net, an network of

computers who’s owners don’t know that their

systems are on the Internet performing various

tasks.

 Spam Zombie, similar to a bot but sending large

amounts of emails to lists all over the world

 DDoS Extortion Zombie, a type of bot that sends

large amounts of data to a single target system

in coordination with thousands of other system

by order of the hacker

 Use your computer as a click Fraud Zombie,

creating fake clicks on ads to run up advertising

rates and charges

 Anonymization Proxy, hackers can hide

themselves behind your computer so that their

actions look like your actions

 CAPTCHA solving Zombie, hackers can use your

computer’s resources to solve CAPTCHA’s in

order to automate the signup process for other

social media accounts

 Have access to an online resource? Hackers

can:

 Use your eBay/PayPal accounts to make

fake transactions or steal your money

 Sell illegal or virtual goods

 Steal your online currency

 Sell stolen software license keys

 Steal your online gaming credentials, to

stack their deck or steal your money

 Guess your website credentials, because

you used a poor password,

 Skype/VoIP Credentials, to spam others or

entice them to download malware

 Get into your bank account data to steal

your money

 Get into your credit card data to steal your

money

 Get into your stock trading account to steal

your money

 Get into your mutual fund/401k Account to

steal your money

 Get into your tax account with an

accountant to steal your money

 Store data? Hackers can:

 Steal and sell or use personal identifiable

information to commit fraud or ruin credit

Steal personal health information to commit

insurance fraud, drug fraud or purchase

medication to then resell on the black

market

 Steal credit card data to get money and

make unauthorized purchases

 Steal names, birth dates, and policy

numbers to create fake IDs and buy

medical equipment to resell

 Steal data to do other things like:

 Refinance your own home and take

out a home equity loan on the

house you live in

 File tax returns using your

information

 File for bankruptcy and use your

information

 Serve jail time with your identity

 Collect government benefits that

you should be getting

 Get a house, apartment or car with

your information

 Empty your bank account

SUMMARY

Everyone has something to lose. Just because you’re a small business does not make

you less of a target. Even as an individual, you are a target for hackers and malware.

Basic, yet cost effective, security services are a necessity for any small business

wishing to succeed.

TTEC Computers Computers MANAGED SECURITY SERVICES

Your cybersecurity alarm system expertly monitors your network, alerting you to

intrusions and credible cybersecurity threats

• INTRUSION DETECTION

• NETWORK THREAT INTELLIGENCE

• ENDPOINT MANAGEMENT

• PATCH MANAGEMENT

• ANTIVIRUS MONITORING/MANAGEMENT

• INCIDENT RESPONSE

• CONSULTING / AUDIT SERVICES

• PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

There are ultimately many things you need to do

to protect your small business from cybersecurity

issues. TTEC Computers helps eliminate these risks by

providing fully automated network monitoring,

threat detection, downloading and deployment of

missing patches while keeping installed anti-virus

and anti-malware software up-to-date. We fix

vulnerabilities before they are exploited and reduce

the time required to remediate any detected issues.

Security experts at TTEC Computers

are on your side when incident response is needed.

50%

Of small businesses think they

are too small to be a

hacker target

73%

Of small businesses have

been victims of a cyber attack

100%

Experienced a negative

impact:

Loss of customer info

Loss of employee info

Expensive Downtime

Loss of company info

Loss of $$$$