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I made a note in my diary a few months ago to write a blog post around now to highlight the forthcoming so-called 'Data Privacy Week'.
I am not a big fan of such events but they can serve to focus attention.
And Data Protection is important to me ... so I used my favourite search engine - DuckDuckGo - to search for a couple of web pages which were promoting Data Privacy Week.
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Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) were the number one target for hackers in 2025.
According to the Data Breach Observatory (part of Swiss company Proton AG), as reported by The Hacker News (24 December 2025).
In this context SMBs are defined as employing between 1 and 249 employees.
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Read more: SMBs were the number one target for hackers in 2025
The Hacker News reported this week (15 December 2025) that "security researchers (have) exposed a cybercrime campaign that has (hitherto) quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions" used by some 4.3 million users worldwide.
A "threat group" spent seven years publishing harmless browser extensions, letting them "run clean to build trust and gain millions of installs", then suddenly "flipping them into malware via silent updates."
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Avoid websites impersonating websites for the consequences of not doing so can be severe.
We were reminded of this risk just this week when our cloud accounts provider emailed to warn of websites impersonating their login page.
And of course, all websites are vulnerable to being impersonated by crooks.
Why do they do it?
To harvest (steal) user login credentials and other personal data.
For starters, think twice before entering your login credentials, even when logging into your own website!
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We subscribe to The Hacker News (THN) Newsletter and recommend you do the same to keep abreast of news about cyber threats to your organisation.
From time to time the THN Newsletter includes useful articles to raise awareness of trends to look out for when interacting with the web.
This week they published an article entitled "5 Reasons Why Attackers Are Phishing Over LinkedIn".
Its focus: 1 in 3 phishing attacks now occur through non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps.
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Read more: Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox
The BBC posted an article yesterday stating a serious Amazon Web Services outage had been 'resolved' as Snapchat and banks were among sites adversely impacted for several hours during the day.
Quote: "Amazon ... said ... the issue "appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1"."
A contributor to the business section of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning reported that Amazon, along with Microsoft and Google provide 70% of global cloud computing.
This prompted me to question which cloud services are used by our own company's supplier of web hosting and domain registrar services: Krystal Hosting.
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