The COVID19 situation was not known to us and it hit us when we were not at all prepared. The announcement of Lockdown in India happened so suddenly that we were literally went into a pause mode for few days, didn’t know what to do, how to progress with our business for few initial days. But after a sudden set back, we take our entire work remotely and set up work station in homes of our every employees. As we are in IT and ITES business for over a decade, the remote method of working always worked for us before and even now. In the process we became fortunate enough to extend our hands to our clients, partners who are doing business with us for a long time.
Migration of everything to remote process and online though was easy for us but it is not easy for other businesses as they are mostly ignorant about the hidden threats of the online business. A client having an e-commerce site can have multiple threats in his online portal starting from most common security threats are phishing attacks, money thefts, data misuse, hacking, credit card frauds, and unprotected services.
These days many e-commerce systems face price manipulation problems. These systems are completely automated; right from the first page to the final check out button. Stealing is the most common intention of price manipulation. It allows a hacker to slide a lower price into the URL and get away with all the data.
Hacking into various important data driven portals, or any online ERP has become very common these days, specially data of university students, or crucial government information site including their mail servers are all in common practice for the hackers.
Due to this unique situation of world Wide Lockdown situation, hackers and their activities have increased manifold, because today power lies in information and all information can be sell-able. Every information has a right price and big organizations sometimes end up paying the price of being not so careful about maintaining the security protocol upgraded.
Snowshoe Spam has been faced by all of us these and mostly we do not give much importance to them but unfortunately we are being victim of snowshoe Spamming that seems like regular spam but it is not sent from one computer but is sent from many users. In such a case it becomes difficult for the anti-spam software to protect the spam messages.
Malicious code threats-These code threats typically involve viruses, worms, Trojan horses. The viruses are capable of destroying the files that are running in the software and sometimes installing antivirus software is not enough.
Worms are very much different and are more serious than viruses. It places itself directly through the internet. It can infect millions of computers in a matter of just a few hours.
A Trojan horse is a programming code which can perform destructive functions. They normally attack your computer when you download something. So always check the source of the downloaded file.
Hacktivism- It can be a socially motivated purpose. This hacking activism or hacktivism typically uses social media platforms to bring to light social issues. It can also include flooding an email address with so much traffic that it temporarily shuts down.
Wi-Fi Eavesdropping- This is one of the easiest ways in e-commerce, CMS, online ERP system that needs internet to access them to steal personal data. It is like a “virtual listening” of information which is shared over a Wi-Fi network which is not encrypted. It can happen on the public as well as on personal computers.
Other threats-Some other threats which include are data packet sniffing, IP spoofing, and port scanning. Data packet sniffing is also normally called as sniffers. A hacker uses a sniffer to attack a data packet flow and scan individual data packs. With IP spoofing it is very difficult to track the attacker. The purpose here is to change the source address and give it such a look that it should look as though it originated from another computer. It gives new shape to terrorism.
We in Prime Infoserv working towards these things for over a decade, and created a nonprofit entity in the name of Infosec Foundation ,to create awareness against various cyber threats and data protection protocol.
Our Goal in Prime Infoserv is to protect all those businesses from any kind of security threat that has gone online in recent days and is not aware of any danger that they may face.
There are few ways to combat any kind of e-commerce/CMS/ERP threats that starts by Developing a thorough implementation plan.
Proper encryption system is extremely essential to combat cyber threat. Encryption is the process of converting a normal text into an encoded text, which cannot be read by anyone except by the one who sends or receives the message.
Having digital certificates which is issued by a reliable third party company is another important step towards data security or information security. Prime Infoserv plays a vital role in getting a digital certificate from very good third party companies. A digital signature contains the following things; the name of the company (Only in EV SSL Certificate), the most important digital certificate serial number, expiry date and date of issue. An EV SSL Certificate is necessary which provides a high level of authentication to your portal or website or any online application that you own. The very function of this kind of certificate is to exclusively protect your online business from unwanted attacks such as Man-In_middle Attack. Also, there are different Types of SSL Certificates available (such as Wildcard SSL, SAN, SGC, Exchange Server certificate, etc.) which you can choose according to the need of your website.
Prime Infoserv always recommends to perform a Web Application Audit that is a routine examination of the security procedures of the organization who owns online business. Apart from these there are many other things that can be done to protect your data, information or money safe.
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