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Tech Tip: If You Think Your Business is Too Small to Be Hacked, Then You’re Probably a Cybercriminal’s No. 1 Target In a world of rampant attention…right? cybercrime, hackers thrive Wrong. It’s quite the on the blind faith of their opposite. According to targets. Despite high-profile StaySafeOnline.org, attacks digital security breaches on small businesses now showing up in the news account for over 70% of nearly every week, most data breaches, a number people assume they’re safe that appears to be on the from attack. rise. Close to half of small The thinking goes that businesses get comprowhile Fortune 500 corpora- mised, ransomware attacks tions like J.P. Morgan, Sony, alone have skyrocketed a Tesco Bank, and Target whopping 250% since 2016, have lost millions of dollars and incidents of phishing to data breaches in recent have followed suit, as years, my business is far too small to justify a hacker’s SEE TECH ROCKSTAR PAGE 15
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n this 2020 race, locally and nationally we’ve seen muckraking attacks, both figurative and literal, and nobody knows where it’ll end. Despite the seemingly endless attacks, voters made educated decisions. The big surprise of the night, of course, was the huge comeback of Joe Biden as well as Bernie Sanders’ win in the Golden State. However, there was an added twist nationally and locally when many of the new voting machines broke down adding to the long wait times for voters who waited until Election Day to cast their vote. In Pasadena and Monrovia, voters reported waiting several hours in some locations and in Texas, voters were still casting their ballots long after the polls closed due to the excessive lines. We’ve seen some humor, love and passion — especially locally. For example, Chris Shevlin donned colorful sandwich boards replete with lights as he walked Foothill Boulevard every night
for his wife. Becky Shevlin easily managed to keep here seat on Monrovia City Council. After the recent week’s bear debacle, where news helicopters awoke the community at 5 a.m. just for a bear sighting, candidate for Monrovia council and local realtor Donna Baker enlisted the help of friends on Facebook to wear a bear outfit while toting her campaign signs around. Monrovia Results Despite long lines at Monrovia Public Library and numerous election station breakdowns, voters turned out Super Tuesday to re-elect Monrovia incumbents. Mayor Tom Adams, council members Becky Shevlin and Gloria Grudgington swept new contenders’ challenges under the bus in Monrovia’s municipal election on March 3. Adams received 52.08 percent of the vote versus newcomer Melissa Taylor’s 45.31 percent. SEE SUPER TUESDAY PAGE 4
Voting starts Monday, March 9 With this year’s for exceptional service Readers’ Choice publica- and products, let the tion, we wanted to lighten world know who you love the mood a little and give in the highly-anticipated our readers a chance to Readers’ Choice 2020. vote for their favorite Readers’ Choice is local business. Whether the annual tip-of-theit be a bar, restaurant or a hat, if you will, to local service-oriented company tradespeople selected by that goes above and you, our readers, as your beyond and really merits a SEE READERS CHOICE PAGE 14 heartfelt “pat on the back”