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Cyber Threats and Your Online Business The internet has allowed countless people to create online businesses. From stay at home parents looking for extra income, to already established corporations that want to expand, the online world is the perfect place to take your business to. However, with this advancement in technology there comes inherent risks. Cyber threats become more and more advanced as the internet grows. Hackers are capable of locking out your computers and demanding ransom money, your database with your client"s personal data can be stolen and sold, and they can even hijack your computer to use to mine cryptocurrency for themselves. As a business owner, it"s your duty to protect the hardware you use and the data stored on it. Not only does a secure system help clients and customers trust you with their information, it helps ensure that your profits are kept intact. Just a single attack from an experienced hacker can devastate your company regardless of its siz...

Digitalization has taken the world by storm and has penetrated into almost every aspect of our lives and has brought with it a plethora of benefits. Lives have become much more comfortable and convenient and now the world is literally on the finger tips. But like every good thing this one has also come with its own share of cons. Over 1 million new strains of malware are created every day. Your website can be blacklisted by Google that blacklists over 9000 websites every day by just one identified infection. The Small to Medium sized enterprises or SMEs are among the most being attacked. More than 30 thousand SME websites are being targeted every day and the sad news is that over 50 percent of the IT professionals think that they do not face any risk. So here are a few ways as suggested by the experts of a reputed company of web development in India for protecting business websites from the malware. Read on. Keep the Software Updated – You should see to it that the Content Manage...

Password, it’s crystal clear to most people that this authentication process is weak and frankly a meaningless form but yet most of us still use password despite the fact that it sometimes causes distress to them,  is easily stolen,  forgotten and mostly unsafe and ineffective. The good news is that two standards bodies, FIDO and W3C announced a better way, a new password free protocol for the web called WebAuthn. WebAuthn has been working its way toward W3C approval for nearly two years, but yesterday marks the first major announcement of browser support. Apple has not commented on Safari support for WebAuthn, although the company is part of the working group that developed the standard. Read more: 90% Of Passwords Can Be Broken In Seconds Chrome, Firefox and Edge will soon support a new open standard known as WebAuthn . When implemented, it will allow users to use their mobile device to verify your identity. This could involve an app, a USB hardware key, or biom...

[caption id="attachment_7725" align="alignnone" width="2060"]                                                                    Nigerian Central Bank, Abuja, Nigeria. Image shot 2007 [/caption] As part of the National Information Technology Development Agency"s move to ensure a threat-free cyberspace, the Central Bank of Nigeria was saddled with the responsibility to embark on a project aimed at restructuring the CBN"s Information and Communications Technology security and system"s infrastructure upgrade projects, Punch Nigeria reported. According to NITDA, the CBN embarked on this project to subdue cyber threats that have become a menace to financial institutions in the country. The Director-General of NITDA, Isa Pantami had earlier in the year rung the alarm on the danger of leaving loopholes for cyber-criminals to...