Various Ways To Protect Your Business Data!

When it is business, it is data and its demand of security!

The Physical security of a workplace is important when it is about employees and the non-living assets of the company, but gone are the days when it was the only thing that needed attention.

Now when most of the important things have become ‘soft’, i.e. existing in digital format for the ease of processing and analysis, businesses need to employ tools that are effective in evading threats posed by malicious software codes / programs, better known as malware, on the data saved in magnetic space.

What are Malicious Software- For Those Who Don’t Know Already

Come on!

Everyone knows about them, how can you don’t?

OK, maybe you got confused because the name is broken into two halves. Combine them and you get the most used word of the cyber dictionary: malware.

Well, I have some definition of my own when people ask me about the malicious software (aka Malware) as well, if you care to know.

Antivirus Protection For Mac

There is always a debate about the possibilities of a Mac to get infected by a virus. Almost all the Mac users are convinced that there is no need to use antivirus on Mac. Mac OS is considered as the securest operating system in the world. However, with an increase in its market share, Mac users realized that their systems were becoming targets of viruses and malware. Therefore, installing good antivirus for Mac became desirable. Even Apple too is encouraging its users to install antivirus software on their Mac.

What is the Crypto Locker Virus and how can PC Avoid this Malware?

What is CryptoLocker virus?

The CryptoLocker virus comes in the category of Trojan. It runs on the Microsoft windows platform and was first detected in the year 2013. It was a ransom Trojan that enters in a system different sources. One of the main sources is email and zipped attachments. The ZIP file has an exe file with an icon of a PDF file. Now, as we all know, Windows does not show the file extension. People who are professionals will definitely check the file's extension, but a person who is not so familiar with the computers will become an easy target.

How to Avoid Malware?

 What if every day a new threat were on the horizon? 

 It would be seemingly overwhelming!  

But what if every day tens of thousands of new threats were appearing, and the majority has yet to be identified?  

Scary as that may seem, we must face reality and realize that is the world we live in today. And for that reason there is no way to protect from malware, except for using reliable antivirus software.

Always knocking on the door

Your computer is just like your house; internet works as a door to enter into a computer. If your internet connection is not secure,  malware can anytime knock on the door and enter into the PC, even without the permission. But it will happen if your PC is not secured by any anti-malware tool. 

How to recover from PC virus attack?

Computers have been fighting with the viruses, as long as our generation cares to remember. There are many ways to stay away from PC virus attack but what if the virus has already attacked your system and you want to get it recovered from the experience?

Here is how you can go about it.

Top PC Attacks You Have Never Heard Of

Even if you spend considerable time on the Internet, chances are that you haven’t heard of the following (evolved) computer virus, attacks of which can be fatal for your system (and in some cases mobile phones as well).

Smishing

Everyone knows SMS, and everyone knows Phishing; here is something merged and made to attack unsuspecting mobile phone users: Smishing (also known as SMS Phishing). When an SMS with a (suspicious) link lands in the inbox of the mobile phone and the user clicks it to get affected by the malware it has, Smishing is in action, effectively. David Rayhawk came up with the term in a McAfee Avert Labs blog.

Your computer working slower 4 major reasons to know

Your wonder if your system is slower than it is entitled to be with the age it has mounted over the years. The reason could be a malware. To learn what it can do, read on.