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Frequently Asked Questions

How Can I Protect Online Assets?

If you own or operate a virtual real estate in the form of a business or personal website, you should be very careful in choosing your web host. Your hosting provider must make sure that the servers are hardened to avoid breach of personal and financial details of your business and its subscribers. You should use SSL certificates for encrypted commerce transactions and ensure that the software running on your website is always updated to avoid losses from known vulnerabilities.

What is Phishing?

Phishing is an attempt to use the names of known websites by fraudsters to seek your personal banking or financial information.Most phishing messages are sent through email and induce you into clicking on links that fake the names of established websites. Once you click on the link you are taken to a scamster's website where he could induce you into disclosing private financial information.

How can I increase mobile commerce safety?

Mobile Commerce is an emerging field. Nothing much is known in terms of enhancing security of your mobile handsets. One of the most basic aspects of securing mobile commerce transactions is by ensuring that you are running the latest code on your mobile operating system and where ever possible, you are making use of anti-fraud software on your mobiles.

What is Identify Theft?

Identity theft can assume various diverse forms. A scammer can use your identity or your business's identity to represent you or your business and cause financial loss to your potential business partners.

What is Data Theft?

Data theft is leakage of personal and private details of your customers, financial or otherwise, to unknown sources that could use and exploit the information to cause financial damage to your business users.