Weekly News Roundup: November 22, 2013

Some news highlights from around the world this week including a visit to Mako’s San Francisco office, hackers in the UK place small businesses in the crosshairs, and a US restaurant is losing business after a card breach incident:

The National Business Review – Mako Eats America – A journalist from New Zealand’s leading weekly business magazine visited Mako’s US Headquarters in San Francisco, leaving with strong impressions of the company and its growth potential.

PYMNTS.com – Bitcoin-Seeking Hackers Terrorize U.K. SMBs – Hackers are actively targeting SMBs in the UK with the now-notorious CryptoLocker ransomware to extract more increasingly valuable bitcoins as ransom.

KAIT-TV – Credit Card Fraud Claims More Victims, Reaches Across State Lines – A local steakhouse in Jonesboro, Ark., has been identified as the source of a suspected card data breach – likely by skimmers installed on the POS system.