Warning Small Businesses: Cyber-Thieves

Be fair, attentive, and customers
will return.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the American Bankers Association
are recommending to small
businesses that process financial
matters, over the Internet, to
designate a specific computer for
it.

Cyber-thieves are using programs
that allow them get into online
accounts.

A computer that isn't used for
Web browsing, e-mail, has a
better chance of not being
attacked by a cyber-thieve.

Hundreds of Trojans, programs,
steal online bank accounts, and
appear daily. Click on one of
the links and your computer
is infected.

An infected computer will
give a cyber-thieve access
to all your banking information.

There is another option to
avoid a cyber-thieve. Close
the commercial account, and
open an individual account.

The law requires banks to
pay-back individuals whose
money is taken by fraud if
it's reported as soon as it
happens.

If banks conclude you were
careless in your financial
affairs, they are not
required to pay you back.

Banks differ on polices. Talk
to your bank on their fraud
policies.

Every small business owner
should make the necessary
changes to stop cyber-thieves.