Greetings! Happy Diwali Wishes! Have a Safe & Secure Diwali

The festive season has begun in India, now it’s the festival of lights – Diwali. People have started getting so many diwali greetings and product discount offers over email. Keep in mind this is the time for business and purchases, and also a hacking ground for phishers. When you receive an email stating, that you have won a lottery or get heavy discounts and you are interested to purchase, see if the website is secured with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate. And also I wish you need to have an updated trusted version of desktop security products like anti-virus, firewall, anti-spam and so on. Because if a phisher tries to send a fake email or email with virus, Trojans, it would be quarantined or blocked by the help of internet security desktop products installed in your computer.

And people who wish to do physical shopping be aware that there might be pick-pockets/ thieves in crowded areas, who steal your wallet. If you have got debit cards, credit cards in your wallet and you wallet gets stolen, be sure you call the concerned back customer care to block your card. And also don’t reveal your password or the three digit secret pin behind your credit card to any one, because that may lead to misuse of your card.(Might be a person who sees the card number and hears the pin, then he may use it in online shopping portals easily). Have a Safe and Secure Shopping and enjoy your festive season.

Wishing you all a Very Happy, Safe and Secure Diwali (Deepavali) :)

Advance Christmas Wishes! – The Shopping season has begun, is that your online shopping is Safe?

The Christmas season has begun and you have planned to buy so many gifts for you, your children, friends and relatives. Beautiful & Attractive wordings on the internet, for welcoming you for the online shopping stating welcome to our online shop, buy christmas presents and christmas gifts here!, Christmas cards, Clip Art, Gift Paks, crafts, decorations, Xmas recipes, shopping, christmas songs CD's & DVD's, stories, traditions and more. Buy one get one free and so many direct & online shopping ads and much more, but are you going to shop safe online?

Here are a few tips I wish would help you out getting your shopping genuine and healthy.

As the festival season has begun, the fraudsters and intruders are ready to break your happiness by just shooting a simple email to your inbox. The Spammers are creating so much attractive content that states, they are real one. But how do you know that the mail in your inbox is a genuine one and you are not spammed. If any links are specified in the email for buying something and its asks for your personal or credit card details check if that site has got a golden yellow pad lock, and the website begins with https://

See that you system has got a Firewall or Antivirus software, because the Spammers or Fraudsters may attach some virus or Trojans to their mail attachments. And also have a firewall so that no unknown person can access your system

Don’t buy online anything, unless you believe that its an secure website. And also try to install an anti-phishing toolbar which might help you in identifying the secure website.

Always check out whether the site is secure or not, by seeing the pad lock and its information (SSL Certificates). See if the website address matches the information provided in the pad lock information.

You can try to have the some of the following software’s for free which might help you in safe online shopping. Also ready my posts about anti-phishing toolbar, what is Spam?, Secure Banking Transactions, the expanded internet security SSL technology and also what’s the Future of internet Security to be safe in coming up online shopping sessions and so on.

So make your Christmas wonderful with secure shopping. The secure online shopping will make your money worth with good spending. So many online shops have implemented the secure internet strategy to welcome and help the consumers in secure online shopping and have safe internet sessions while they do online shopping.

Happy Christmas and a Very Happy (Online) Shopping! Lets this Christmas be unforgetful with your new gifts and cards.

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Internet and Ecommerce Security for Merchants and Customers

eCommerce is the conducting of business with goods and services over the Internet. Electronic commerce or e-commerce consists of the buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over computer i.e. Internet networks with the transfer of funds, through digital communications. These type of online business in using information technology industry might see it as an electronic business application aimed at commercial transactions where Electronic data Interchange or Electronic File transfer are carried out via internet. Also the supplier the customer/consumer would be transmitting inquiries, orders, invoices, payments etc. directly through their computer systems. So while these type of ecommerce transactions takes place then there is an need for internet security. In an ecommerce transaction the merchant should provide more customer security to bring more business and retain them.
The merchant / business person is always responsible for security of the Internet-connected PC where their customer details are handled. The minimum would be a Virus protection, a firewall and a commercial secure back-up where confidential information are stored.

Here are some the basic principles that needs to be a must for Customer Security.

1.) Privacy : Personal Details / Information should be kept confidential from unauthorized parties.

2.) Integrity: The information / Message which is provided should not be altered or tampered with any.

3.) Authentication: Here lies the Trust, the sender and recipient must prove their identities to each other to bring comfidence to the user & merchant.

4.) Proof of identity or Non-repudiation: An proof is needed that the message / information transmitted is indeed received by the merchant/ Customer.

The above specified principles can be done via encryption where credit cards are taken online and processed later,or credit cards are taken online and processed in real time. Its the merchant's responsibility to check the security and safety of transactions of the hosting company's webserver.