44% Of SMBs Admit To Falling Victim To Cybercrime

GLENDALE, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced its worldwide barometer on the status of security at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)(1). According to the study, which surveyed 5,760 companies worldwide, 44 percent of the more than 1,400 US respondents have recently been infected by Internet threats. Worldwide, 58 percent were affected, with Brazil showing the highest infection rate at 86 percent. Only 8 percent of SMBs in Germany reported infections.

US SMBs cited that, of any threat, viruses affected their companies the most, at