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NO HACKERS ALLOWED

Cyberattacks are a huge and growing threat to small businesses—but there are ways to fight back
RESCUE ME Cyberattacks, malware, and phishing scams can cost your business thousands of dollars.

REBECCA MILLER OF PEGGY JEAN’S PIES, a bakery in Columbia, Missouri, woke up one morning last summer to a less-than-sweet surprise: Online searches for her shop’s website were leading potential customers to an X-rated destination. “Not just porn—like, capital P porn,” recalls Miller, a former lawyer who runs the shop with her mother, Jeanne Plumley. “Really, really bad porn.”

It took her most of the day and several hundred dollars paid to a third-party vendor to clean up the mess. “Who

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