By Kathleen Duffy In the United States, a cyberattack occurs every 39 seconds, according to Security Magazine. Still, it wasn’t until the attack on Colonial Pipeline, the major supplier of gas to East Coast residents, that the public began to take notice. Last June, another “colossal” ransomware attack hit hundreds of U.S. companies. Meanwhile, small and mid-sized firms have been mostly insulated as hackers have targeted larger enterprises. But that paradigm is shifting. My recruitment company is proof of that. COVID-19 Has Fueled Cyberattacks on Small and Mid-Sized Businesses In March, I was notified by our IT company that the FBI had released information of a potentially serious vulnerability in our email server. Our IT consultant believes hackers had been trying to infiltrate our servers months before the notice. It was shortly thereafter that they finally succeeded, shutting down three of our company’s servers as part of a “crypto hack attack” that …