Hacking business in IT sector

If you are thinking that you are safe with your computer systems and server, think twice। You will be surprised to look at the statistics of viruses that affect computers. Virus threat to computers is nothing new. New viruses, spyware and malware are increasing day by day and it runs faster than any antivirus program making it harder to protect.

‘Botnets’ have emerged as one of the biggest threats to computers. It is surprising that between January to June this year, India saw 374 new bots per day. With the increase of servers especially in India, the new IT hub, the number of bot infected computers are increasing like anything. Bots are software applications that run automated tasks over the internet। Typically, bots perform tasks at a much higher rate than a human editor can.

Bots or internet robots infect computers and once inside a network, they automate, can perform denial of service attacks, and relay spam that appears to come from the infected machine’s network, or install software that can log keystrokes।

Researches and studies are on by several companies to detect and protect servers and systems in India। With the spread of IT companies in India, they are becoming vulnerable to bots. Hacking has become a profitable business. The motive being to steal information or to relay spam, botnets have become a threat to computers in this new IT hub, where more than 40 command and control servers run.

Hackers are running a parallel economy globally and India is no far from this global phenomena. Credit card information, email passwords, bank account information are some of the highly demanding commodities. Rates of products and commodities vary as per the amount of information to share.

E-commerce Web hosting

E-commerce web hosting is the hosting of upcoming website engaged in e-commerce business. With the evolvement of computer networking and internet business organizations are taking its full advantage by way of e-business. Internet marketing is in its peak. Even the developing countries are not far behind the race.

Using of internet is in its boost even in small towns and non metro cities of developing countries. A recent study shows that percentage of net users in small cities is increasing even faster than the metropolitan cities.
It is easily understood that the scope of e-commerce is wide increasing resulting into the need for more e-commerce based websites. Applications and programs with advanced functionality in the areas of marketing, customer management and back-office integration designed to provide enhanced value and service for customers and greater efficiency for the merchant are the emerging aspect of e-commerce development.

It is a challenge to the IT professionals to meet the changing demand of the business organizations through developing effective and purposive applications for carrying out e-business. IT professionals working either offshore or on-site for various e-commerce solution is seemed to be ready to face the challenge.
 
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