12 Ways Startup Founders Can Clear MindSpace From A Negative Social Feed
By Hari Julka
In these times of extreme polarisation and negativity all around due to differing political scenarios and unemployment, it could be hard for a startup founder to focus on building or marketing a business online, even when his or her entire social feed is filled with negative world views.
It can induce a negative bias of the current and...
Hiring Virtually? Here’s How To Ace The Virtual Talent Acquisition Process
By Bhavin Turakhia, CEO and Founder, Flock
An important question that has arisen in the current times is how do you build a strong remote team?
Coordinating with your team which is spread across many time zones, ensuring every task gets completed in time, and catching communication breakdowns before they deteriorate are crucial.
However, the reality is that remote work is a huge...
5 Ways Freelancers Can Perfect The Art Of Networking In 2020
By Mitali Roy
The freelance workforce in US alone is projected to cross the 79.6 million mark by 2025, from the current, 64.8 million in 2020, according to various estimates.
As Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating and with companies small and large closing shop or filing bankruptcy, an increasing number of highly skilled workers can be expected to join...
5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Succeed Despite A Potential Recession
By Elatia Abate
If you’re a small business owner right now, the last thing you need is a pep talk. Instead, let’s focus on tactical, how-to guidance that you need now to defy the odds, continue to grow your business, and ultimately emerge from this crisis with certainty and strength.
One of the definitions of crisis is “a stage in a...
Bug Bounty: Hackers Earned $45 Million As Bounties In Last 12 Months
According to virtual private network service provider Atlas VPN, ethical hackers earned $44,754,742 million collectively from bug bounties in the last 12 months.
In total, hackers reported 60,000 valid vulnerabilities. Hackers received $979 on average per single vulnerability.
The United States remains the top payer of bounties, rewarding hackers $39,125,265 in the past year. Rewards paid by the US organizations alone...
Post Pandemic: 16 Team Activities To Keep Virtual Employees Engaged
Looking for some effective team building exercises to bring your team together?
As a former leadership trainer and coach, I have run several types of team building activities for teams of several sizes – with participants ranging from entry level employees to C-level executives.
But with COVID-19 disrupting businesses all over, most teams have been forced to go remote.
So how do...
4 Must-Have IT Security Skills to Counter Next-Gen Cyber Threats
By Sunil Sharma, Managing Director - Sales, India & SAARC, Sophos
Over the last year, and the last few months especially, stories of organisations crippled by ransomware attacks, and cloud security issues among others dominated the news headlines.
At a time when remote working and public cloud usage soared, cybercriminals leveraged this to launch attacks that demanded six-seven figure ransoms.
The India...
Top 10 In-demand Programming Languages That Can Get You A Job
Technology has become an integral part of our personal and working lives. From smartphones to online apps, a lot of work goes into making such forms of ‘technology’ as efficient and user-friendly as possible.
As technology continues to develop and more innovations are brought to the table, the demand for the appropriate technical skills to make these a reality is...
Gamers Hit With Over 14 Million Credential Stuffing Attacks Daily
By John C.
According to data analyzed by the Atlas VPN research team, gamers are hit with 14.02 million credential stuffing attacks daily.
A successful credential abuse attack steals the victim’s account and puts the owner’s credit card information as well as in-game assets at risk. Worth noting - veteran players might have thousands of dollars worth of items in their...
Safety Tips: Your Windows Passwords Could Be Hacked Via Your Wallpaper
By Paul Ducklin, Principal Research Scientist at Sophos
Our cybersecurity antennae always start vibrating when we see warnings about attacks that involve a new type of file. We’re sure you have the same sort of reaction.
After all, if a file type that you’ve treated for years as mostly harmless suddenly turns out to be possibly very dangerous, you’re faced with a double dilemma:
...
[Post Pandemic]: The Growing Role of Technology In The Education Sector
Sumana Iyengar, CEO & Co-Founder of Goavega
Among the various sectors that have benefited from early adoption of technology in a bid to survive through the COVID pandemic, education has been an active front runner. While Ed-tech had been steadily making its presence felt over the past few years, with assisted learning tools that leverage robotics, ML etc., for developing...
Revealed: The Countries Most At Risk Of Remote Desktop Protocol Attacks
The number of people working from home has risen astronomically this year due to Covid-19. Consequently, numerous companies have been reliant on remote desktop connections to enable their employees to access their work computer from home.
One of the most popular applications for accessing Windows workstations and servers is Microsoft’s remote desktop protocol (RDP), which cyber criminals have viewed as...
Despite Security Law, Hong Kong’s Trade With World Unaffected: HKTDC
Countries such as Australia, New Zealand, US and UK have expressed deep concern over China’s new security law undermining the democratic freedom of the people of Hong Kong. However the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), an organisation promoting and developing external trade for Hong Kong with South Asia remains optimistic.
Mumbai based Rajesh Bhagat, Consultant at South Asia Hong...
Time For Wearable Tech To Shape the Future of Healthcare
By Maj Sunil Shetty (SM) Retd.
A couple of years ago, Bani Banerjee, a cancer survivor, who was then in her early 70s, fell from her bed and lay on the floor for a few hours without any help.
Even though her mobile phone was a few feets away on a table and her daughter Jhilmil Kochar, co-founder of Innoembed Technologies,...
Digital Revolution: India Destined To Reach 1 Billion Internet Users by 2025
By John C.
According to data estimations calculated by the Atlas VPN research team, India is set to reach 1 billion internet users by the year 2025.
As of 2020 YTD, there are over 687.6 million internet users in India.
In this report, we regard internet users as people that viewed the internet at least once during the last month. The internet...
Why Social Capital Is As Important As Angel Money For Your Startup
By Hari Julka
A lot of people keep complaining about the lack of capital in starting a business or breaking their daily loop of life.
However, they hardly realise that you don’t need much capital to start a business - but what you need is social capital.
The social capital consists of the brand you build, what you stand for, the things...
