Tag: Tips & Tricks

Now You Too Can Enlist Your Own Cyber-Thief, But Check Your Pockets

Want to hack your ex-spouse’s cellphone? Steal the private passwords to get dirt on your annoying neighbors? How about disrupting your business competitor’s operation, perhaps by shutting down its online network or holding data for ransom? All of these activities are illicit and malicious, but a growing cadre of professional “black hat” hackers are providing…


10 Keys to Teamwork

By Belén Gómez Pereira If it takes one hour for a person to complete a task, how long would it take two? The mathematical answer would be: “30 minutes.” But when working as a team, the efforts of the members are enhanced, reducing the time of action and increasing the effectiveness of the results. This…


6 Tips to Secure Mobile Devices in Your Organization

Mobile technology can be an excellent tool for productivity and convenience, but it also poses security threats. So be aware and watchful. Smartphones are all around us, and people use them for work every day. Mobile technology can be an excellent tool for productivity and convenience, but it also poses security threats. CheckPoint’s Mobile Security…


This 5,000-Year-Old Chinese Board Game Can Help Your Business Make Millions

By Roman Kumar Vyas Every week, our team at Refocus plays the ancient Chinese board game Go. It’s not just for team-building or fun. Go is a powerful tool for pumping strategic thinking into business. The game, which is about 5,000 years old, helps entrepreneurs make important decisions about which country to open a new…


Drive Your Online Business’s Sales With 5 Simple Strategies

By Murali Nethi In today’s digital climate, any company left without an ecommerce site is at a grave disadvantage when increasing its sales. Although customers are now flocking into stores and enjoying the lessened COVID restrictions, ecommerce sales grew 9.3 percent in the second quarter of 2021. Companies of all shapes and sizes are seeking…


6 Free Tools That Help Optimize Your Website

By Summit Ghimire What makes a “good” website? High organic rankings? Valuable content? Customer experience? Or something entirely altogether? While experts worldwide have varying opinions of what a website should look like, they all agree that there is no single factor to determine the quality of a website. This is why optimizing your website for…


The Rise of BGP Hijacking and Why You Need a Response Plan Immediately

By Deepak Gupta Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Hijacking is one of the many famous attacks hackers deploy to interfere with content delivery networks (CDNs). Hackers may also be capable of interfering with cloud hosting providers. Recently, almost all major cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and GoDaddy have become victims of BGP Hijacking. How Does…


6 Ways to Protect Yourself From Cyber Theft

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and this year marks an especially vulnerable time for consumers. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a surge in cybercrime, according to Matt Donahue, a compliance and risk analyst at Sentient Digital, Inc., a technology solutions and IT managed services provider with offices in New Orleans and Norfolk. “Despite…


5 Ransomware Protection Tips for Your Small Business—From a Hacker

By Tor Constantino Ransomware attacks are on the rise and continue to be the primary method of cyber infiltration by hackers. Experts estimate that this year alone, every 11 seconds there will be a ransomware attack against an unsuspecting business. In fact, the total global number so far this year exceeds the same period in…


Here’s How You Can Create a Highly Profitable Website

By Frank Wazeter Fundamentally a website is your most powerful tool because it’s capable of evolving as your business grows and because it’s a tireless worker. Nobody on the planet can work harder than a website because a website is available 365 days a year, 24/7. It doesn’t need to sleep, never gets sick, and…