Indian financial system has traditionally not been a level playing field between large enterprises versus small businesses. The MSMEs have had a raw deal on financing in India. This is because, by their very name, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are generally small. So will the big firms keep getting bigger, to the point of “too big to fail”? Is…
With globalization and digital technology, search engine optimization (SEO) has proved to be a huge success for businesses of all sizes. With businesses going online, SEO has become a key medium to introduce products to the world. This technique of diverting targeted website traffic from various search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo to your website is known for numerous…
It is quite a challenge to protect employees while they are working from home. Many IT teams find it difficult to pull this task off. As the organizations are following the government’s rules and shifting their offices to employees’ homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber attacks are increasing as well putting companies at more risks. Home security networks are…
Today the most common and dangerous email threats, phishing attacks are something that every modern organization in this day and age face at least once. Attackers are increasingly exploiting our reliance on email communication in this digital era. This is evident with the incident that nearly half of the said phishing attempts had been successful last year in 2020. However,…
The internet has now become an inseparable part of every people and business. But every time a person (employee in general) opens any web browser, they potentially expose their organization to unknown threats and different types of malware, ranging from phishing threats to ransomware to Trojans and much more. It is, therefore, necessary for every organization to deploy a robust…
Phishing is all about email fraud, which is a type of cyber-attack. A fraudulent person tricks the victims of such a crime into sharing their sensitive information such as passwords, financial information, and usernames. Phishing emails are one of the most popular ones and threatening online crimes that can target thousands of people at once. The advance form of this…
Privacy is not a new thing. In our normal life also, people had been locking their secrets in cabinets / safe or been using curtains / doors / tainted glass to prevent unnecessary disclosure of their internal things etc. However, in modern time, as more of our data becomes digitized & we share more information online, we interact with several…
Traditional passwords are cracked too easily nowadays. Hackers have tried a lot of different measures to steal the credentials and gain unauthorized access to private accounts by spear-phishing and pharming as well. According to Microsoft engineers in March 2020, there could have been a blockage by a multi-factor authentication solution (MFA) for 99.9% of the account compromise incidents they handle.…
There could be many things more threatening than just email hacking for small businesses. The worst could be someone having unauthorized access to your credit card ordering limitless pizzas, making racist comments from your account, or even making bomb threat calls. There are many lives that have become very unfortunate and have suffered the damages of a cybercrime. It has…
Cyber-criminals nowadays are going after your employees instead of your business systems. One of the leading reasons why there are data breaches around the world against organizations is due to the cyber-attacks that aim at individuals rather than the software. According to the experts, there are clear reasons behind this. It is quite easier to target people who are not…