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How to stay safe while shopping online? Risks and tips!

Additionally, online stores offer a wide selection of products and flexible payment options, further enhancing the convenience of eCommerce shopping. Finally, the choice for easy returns adds a layer of comfort for the shoppers. However, the need of the hour is to stay vigilant of the scams that target online shoppers. With the increase in consumer activities, cybercrimes have stirred substantial financial, personal, and confidential losses for companies across the globe. For example, 54% of consumers encountered suspicious online actions, of which 18% were mobile spam calls, 21% were scared of their credit card data being stolen, and 19% were sure their confidential data might have been hacked. Is Online Shopping Safe? For the most part, online shopping is safe. However, cybercriminals leverage social engineering to trick users into believing they’re making transactions on the right website, opening a legitimate email/email attachment, and using a secured public Wi-Fi. Hackers often...

Mobile, AI, cloud-based solutions to rule the roost

Emerging technologies will enable businesses to improve operational efficiency and communication, and deliver first-rate customer service In today’s hyper-competitive space, businesses must stay relevant and offer exceptional services to satisfy their customers. But that’s easier said than done, particularly since digital technologies are expected to continue to dominate in 2023. During the year, businesses can expect to experience increased mobile devices and app usage, growing use of AI and automation , and more widespread use of cloud-based solutions. Connectivity technologies By 2023, global Internet users are projected to reach 5.3 billion. This is due to the continued growth in both the number of devices connected to the Internet and the amount of data they generate. The same criteria are responsible for increased expectations to stay connected at all times, especially when people are working from remote locations. Organisations must figure out the best way to communicate interna...

How is rise of bots-as-a-service impacting enterprises

  A study by Imperva shows that 27.7% of all internet traffic is bad bots. As bots continue to proliferate and evolve, they’re becoming more sophisticated. Mimicking human interactions with a website or application, bots are making it difficult for businesses to detect and block them. Another study shows that over 64% of organizations lost over 6% of their revenue due to bot attacks. Therefore, keeping abreast of the threat landscape and employing advanced security measures to safeguard against bad bots is now table stakes for enterprises. Thus in this blog post, we’ll discover what bad bots are and how they’re available as a service. We’ll also cover best practices to avoid bot attacks. Bad bots-as-a-service Internet bots , or robots, are computer programs that run automated tasks so that humans don’t have to perform repetitive manual chores. But bots can be good as well as bad. For example, good bots can automate mundane tasks, crawl websites and rank them on search engine resul...