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You need authentication

I am constantly amazed at the lassez faire attitude that the majority of businesses, large and small, have about their online security.  Those that require their users / members to log on will provide a user name and password log in to verify their identity – and that’s it.  I suppose that if the large players like Amazon and iTunes can get away with it then the smaller guys think that’s all they need to. The reality is that if the big boys get a hit – they have the firepower to deal with it.  But SME’s just need one bad hack and they are out of business.    2011 is going down as the year of the ‘Hack’ (  http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/22481/year-of-the-hack-/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)  with many high profile victims like SONY, RSA and Epsilon losing millions of their users personal information.    Despite this there seems to be the attitude that ‘ it cant happen to me’ .    I have just read about the latest phishing scam targeting Amaz