Rise in Hacking Attacks Demand Better Website Security

Ensuring a good website security means understanding why hacking attacks happen today in the first place. Some hackers might launch an attack just for fun, others might aim to illegal gains such as credit card details or other confidential information. A research made by the Business Insider News Portal shows that hacking attacks have become more invasive and harder to stop. Website security is therefore the most important step you should take to protect your online presence.

2011 was a banner year for web hacking, resulting in a great amount of official government and armed services records exposed. Medical and health care groups, educational institutions and finally the financial and banking institutions are the most targeted these days. Lesser targets are businesses, technology and internet organizations, including e-commerce websites and online stores. These businesses are targeted because they store valuable data and information such as customers’ bank details, and even though they take big steps to shore up their website security, hackers can still find vulnerabilities and ways to break into their systems.

A hacker may have other motivations besides stealing information. In fact, the most common forms of web hacking is to deface a website, rendering it useless or even worse implanting malware. If your website contains malware it can also infect your visitors and place you on the infamous Google Blacklist. Read more about what malware is and the most common ways of spreading it.

Phishing has become also a very common hacking attack. This type of attacks happens when hackers build fake websites so that your customers will submit their details thinking that is actually your site. Phishing is typically promoted via Email and Instant Messages. In relation to phishing, it is also important to secure your website so that it doesn’t get hacked and turned into a phishing site.

Another reason for hacking attacks is to simply deface the appearance of a website and replace the information with their beliefs. Normally the websites compromised in this manner, are based on religious or political stances. Even is no valuable information is stolen, it will show your website’s security vulnerabilities, which can still affect your visitors’ trust.

Hackers might target smaller websites or even individual blogs in order to practice their knowledge or new techniques before launching a bigger attack. To make your website less vulnerable, means choosing a reliable website security service, such as WebsiteDefender that regularly monitors your website and alerts you if any vulnerabilities, malware or hacker activity are detected. Furthermore, it gives you clear instructions on how to fix any detected issue. WebsiteDefender is a very easy to use online security service that requires no maintenance or learning curve whatsoever. All you need to do is to sign up for your WebsiteDefender account today and have peace of mind that your website is secure.

Why Website Security is Important for your Online Success

Website Security is a major issue on the internet these days as the number of hackers and malware has increased dramatically. Many websites or blogs get targeted every day by hacker groups or individuals, jeopardizing their confidential information or databases. 

It is very likely that a website  infected with malware will end up on the Google Blacklist or banned by other search engine providers, meaning that your website will no longer be listed. This has a dramatic negative effect on your ranking and visitor traffic. Moreover, cleaning up the malware on your website and getting removed from the Google blacklist can be a difficult and time-consuming task.

A web security service, such as WebsiteDefender, is what you need to keep your website free from malware and safe from hacker attacks. WebsiteDefender is an easy to use online security service that monitors your website for hacker activity, detects malware and vulnerabilities within your website and gives you clear instructions on how to fix detected issues.  WebsiteDefender also provides specialized security checks for WordPress, such as examining installed plugins and themes to see whether they have any security vulnerabilities so you can remove them before any damage can be done.

Another feature provided by WebsiteDefender is that it will notify you if your website files have been changed – any file changes you have not made yourself can be an indication of hacker activity. You can view a full report which highlights any changes in your files, being able to directly compare them with previous versions.  WebsiteDefender security features offer you peace of mind that your website or blog is secured while you  focus on providing quality content and services to your customers.

Sign up for your WebsiteDefender account today to ensure your visitors and customers are safe and that they keep coming back.

Why Mobile Security Is Important

Mobile phones are everywhere and you need to know how to secure the data you have on them in order to protect your privacy. It's unfortunate that there are so many people who dismiss mobile phone security. They certainly never would make that mistake on their home computer - they shouldn't with their phones.

While security needs to be in place to stop potential hackers, it also needs to be in place should you lose your phone or have it stolen. After all, it could take hour after hour to undo the harm that can be done to your company, reputation and finances if private data was leaked such as credit card details of your clients, and sometimes a full recovery is impossible. If someone found your phone, what information would they have about you or your company?

It is crucial to have a strong password on your mobile phone or tablet just in case you lose it. With 3CX Mobile Device Manager you also have some additional options to give you peace of mind. Not only can you see the location of your mobile device in real time to try and recover it, but in the meantime you can remotely lock it and change the password to stop anyone accessing all your data.

If you are unable to recover your mobile phone, however, you can also remote wipe all data from it and any attached SD cards. By doing this, you can be sure that no identity theft can occur and no sensitive corporate data is exposed.

Visit http://www.mobiledevicemanager.com for more information on how to keep your mobile devices secure.

3CX Phone System Gets Skype Connect Certified

3CX Phone System for Windows allows businesses to connect with Skype users worldwide with its support of Skype Connect.

3CX, developer of the award-winning 3CX Phone System for Windows, has announced that its internationally used cross-platform communications application has received Skype Connect™ interoperability certification. Businesses of all sizes that are using the 3CX Phone System can now communicate more efficiently and economically by directing their outbound calls to mobile phones and landlines around the world through Skype. It will also allow those companies to receive inbound calls from their clients, partners and suppliers who are Skype users.

“By utilizing Skype Connect, businesses running a 3CX Phone System can allow customers, partners and employees to call them. Click & Call buttons on a company’s Web site can make it quick and easy for customers to reach out and buy – thereby increasing sales.” – Nick Galea, CEO, 3CX.

Businesses of all sizes are looking for ways to reduce their communications costs. Skype Connect™ delivers an offering to business customers that can interoperate with existing SIP enabled PBX or UC systems. Skype Connect integrates easily with a business’ 3CX Phone System, enabling employees to use Skype to make outbound calls to landlines or mobile phones at Skype’s standard calling rates. In addition, through the separate purchase of Skype’s online numbers, a company can receive inbound calls via Skype from business contacts and customers calling from landlines and mobile phones.

Customers can also call a business by using Skype’s Click & Call feature. By adding a Click & Call button to a company’s Web site, email and other online promotions, customers using Skype can call with just a click of a button, making the business easier to reach, as well as providing a free communication between your business and your customers. All Skype calls being received in the 3CX Phone System via the Click & Call button will be handled like any other call, which means call queuing, transferring of calls, making use of the digital receptionist and additional features available with the 3CX Phone System can reduce the barriers to communicating with your business and help increase sales, as your business will be far more accessible to potential and existing customers.

The 3CX Phone System can help improve employee productivity since users can take advantage of Skype Connect™ to call around the world, while also taking full advantage of the additional key features of the 3CX Phone System, such as call switching, routing, queuing, call recording and more.

3CX Version 10 BETA Released!

3CX, the company behind the IP 3CX Phone System, have announced BETA of their new version 10 PBX. Version 10 is a major release, using Silverlight for the user portal, 3CX MyPhone for the first time. MyPhone replaces the 3CX Assistant and the old 3CX MyPhone portal as everything has been grouped in one easy to use portal.

The new 3CX MyPhone will be web based, but users will also be able to install MyPhone as a desktop app (it does also work on Macs). 3CX say that in this mode it uses the browser in the background but allows the user to resize 3CX MyPhone to their preference, as well as launch it automatically.

I'm definitely going to be checking it out, especially when I saw these these features:

• Notification to Windows Event log, 3CX Event Log and optionally by e-mail on key events
• PnP support for 3CXPhone for iPhone, Android and Windows, Grandstream Executive GXP-21xx and Yealink phones. This means that you can just plug in the phone, assign extension in the management console and the phone will be automatically configured. This eliminates the need to specify the provisioning URL in the phone or via DHCP option 66.
• Complete support for the new Grandstream GXP-1450, GXP 2100, GXP 2110 and GXP 2120 phones. Requires firmware v. 1.0.1.56 and up. Note that these phones are still in BETA
• Support for the Grandstream GXP 3140, GXP 3175 video phones
• Support for the Yealink VP 2009 video phones
• Ability to black list IPs
• Ability to block extensions being registered from outside the network
• You can configure that particular extensions can not be used outside of the local network
• Ability to limit extensions registering externally to use tunnel
• Native 64 bit version (not available in beta)
• Ability to record prompts via the phone – simply click on prompt, enter extension name and record prompt
• Reduced memory footprint and elimination of extra service
• Specify extension group in outbound rules to easily create Class of Service rules

3CX have provided a downloads section where you can try out the BETA version 10.

3CX BETA Version 10 Phone System can be downloaded here. The administration manual can be found here (PDF). The 3CX MyPhone and Extension user manual is web based and can be found here while users can post any questions about the BETA here in the 3CX Phone System V10 BETA forum.

You can use this Beta V10 Demo Key to activate enterprise features: LFMD-4QDR-7OHP-ZZO2

3CXPhone 5 adds video, BLF to free soft phone in Smartphone Look

3CX’s popular free business soft phone does Unified Communications and becomes ‘Zero Admin’

London - November 30, 2010- 3CX today announced a new version of its popular free VoIP soft phone for Windows, 3CXPhone 5. New features added to 3CXPhone 5 include standards based video support, multiple SIP profiles, BLF and the ability to provision and manage all soft phone installations network wide. 3CXPhone 5 will remain completely

free.

3CX and Phonzo offer complete VoIP PBX solution in Norway and Sweden

Nicosia, Cyprus and Oslo, Norway - 12 November 2010 - 3CX, the international developer of the award-winning 3CX Phone System for Windows has completed full interoperability testing with VoIP service provider Phonzo and announced today a strategic partnership providing a fully integrated VoIP solution for SMB markets in Norway and Sweden.