Some Handy Tips for Enhancing Cyber Security of Small Businesses

Starting a business of your own? A smaller one!! But want some effective guidance over how to deal with cyber threats at business level, and protect your business from being a caught victim? Then read on some useful tips listed below:-

• Use Small Biz Cyber Planner: - Small Biz Cyber Planner is an effective product by FCC, for small business owners. It’s useful in establishing an effective cyber security plan for small scaled businesses. The tool asks for several levels of security you want to add in your security plan; once you complete that the work is done. The tool itself creates a cyber-security strategy for business and delivers that in a PDF document.
•  Assign some security rules towards employee end:- Establish some simple rules of behavior, describing how and what to be shared online. And a clear address through penalties for respective violence to cyber security policies would work enough.
•  Purchase good antivirus software and keep it updated with latest virus definitions. That would shield your systems against cyber threats.
• Guide your employees about cyber threats now-a-days, that are spreading vigorously via several social media sites. It may lead towards safe social networking habits and protect your network from those cyber threats.
• Maintain regular upgrades and update installations of installed software’s on your systems. Software vendors provide various updates to their software’s which in turn improves the software performance and ability to track down any threats in future. Therefore, up-to-date software would protect you from cyber threats.
• Always maintain a backup of necessary information & entire business data.
• Protect your systems from being accessed by unauthorized individuals. A perfect customization would protect you from un-authenticated access of your systems.
• If you own a wi-fi network for your business, always make sure it’s not traceable. Customize it to secure and hidden, so that your router doesn’t broadcasts the SSID to others.

Make a Sneak Peak Over These Useful Tips and Enhance Your Cyber Security..

Are you often worried about your Cyber safety or get threatened by your child’s social presence? Don’t worry these handy tips would improve your security:-

• Always use a strong password combination for your Online Accounts. A blend of upper & lower case letters, with some characters & symbols; will create a magic.
• Don’t trust blind on every online hoax. Always take time to verify whether or not the content is safe and reliable enough.
• Never share personal information online. At least not when you don’t know the source page well.
• Think twice before sharing or sending something to your known ones. Always spread genuine information, fake hoaxes may spoil relations.
• Never post any illegal or inappropriate content online.
• Set your social profiles to limited sharing. If it’s much more personal either don’t share t at all or set it to private.
• Don’t indulge too much with unknowns on social profiles, you never know the identity you are dealing with is a fake one, or who knows it even exists sometimes?
• Customize your settings over social profiles, so that your friends would have to ask for permissions before tagging or sharing content about you.
• Never click on those embedded links pasted in any of your e-mails. A safer step could be just typing them yourselves on the browser and then visiting the page.

The Chief of Kaspersky Clarification on Flame Virus

Even after the revelation of the Flame virus, the network security establishments continues to flail about in high alert.  On this, Vitaly Kamlyuk from Kaspersky gave various details with the entire history of the Flame malware. The complete research about Flame was recently talked about in public by Kaspersky. It was first detected in the year 2010 however, it was not revealed by the company at that time due to the lack of details.  As per the information provided by Kamlyuk, the detection of Flame was completely a matter of chance for Kaspersky Labs as the lab came across it by accident.
The investigation in the field was taken out by Kaspersky on the order of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union which had asked the labs to do a thorough investigation about the infection which was spoiling hard drives in almost all the Middle East nations. As it was a completely different kind of infection so, Kaspersky was recommended to deeply investigate about all the aspects of the matter.
This formed the base for the discovery of Flame however, the fact can’t be denied that it came out to be much more complex and surprising than ever expected by the researchers.
Kamlyuk has repeated many a times that Flame is too much complex and intricate as a piece of malware. The analysis of this malware is still not complete as its 20MB package is under analysis as the secrets of this malware are rolling out very slowly.
The Flame has been compared to the Stuxnet  which was used in the attack which had completely destroyed Iranian nuclear facilities last year. The weight of Stuxnet used during the attack was just a few hundred kilobytes. Till the present investigations on this malware, it has been revealed that it’s very sophisticated software. Due to its level of sophistication, Kaspersky thinks that it may have been built by some government scientists but still there is no idea of the government which may be involved in this.
The complicated part of the investigation has been to find out where all the huge data goes which is gathered by Flame from the infected systems. Though many control servers have been found but all the domains associated with them are registered with fake identities which further toughen the investigation process.
Flame can steal hard drive contents, screenshots as well as keystrokes.Not only this, it can suck in more data using the system microphone and Bluetooth radio. Â
Kamlyuk calls the large volume of stolen data the limiting factor for Flame. It’s also believed by the investigators that Flame deletes itself from the system after fully exploiting them which makes the detection more difficult.
Flame is considered to be a dangerous cyberwar element which has been floating since the year 2010 and affecting the systems. If the use of Stuxnet marked the beginning of intense cyberwar, Fame is considered to be an advanced malware with worse motive. The worst part is that much more dangerous cyber weapons are expected in the coming year which really frightens the cyber world.
This article written by Devesh Rai behalf of Sunrise PC Support, Sunrise PC Support is Online Technical Support Company which provides the Tech Services like Online Technical Support for Dell, Online Technical Support for Avast