Official sales season on to go. Hurry up to get best discounts for everything.
Nowadays, stationary shopping is a primary way to get presents for those dearest. Although, big amount of items performed via Internet sales. For those, who prefer to make their purchases online Cyber Monday is the best time.
Nevertheless, big holidays turns big amount of work to do. As for IT workers – as they have to fight viruses, phishing scams and other hacker activity.
This year online retailers are about to expect a significant demand for shopping season that officially starts on Black Friday.
According to The Adobe Digital Index an average spend for Thanksgiving and Black Friday alone is going to reach approximately $2.7 billion, as for Cyber Monday, the best time for online shopping, great sum $2.3 billion is going to be expected. Among this number, Mobile optimized retailers will transact more than 20% of their sales via smartphones and tablets, 36% of consumers stated that they will turn to social media when making their purchase decisions.
Great profits mean a huge hosting rise that definitely turns a big stress for websites. On other hand, in a case of site’ slow down or break down it might cause big losses as well. For example, one hour of site breakdown during Cyber Monday turns to $500,000 loss. A small malfunction will make customers just to leave for another faster site, – according to a Ponemon Institute report.
For those who desperately looking for freebie make sure that there is a lock symbol near the address bar when entering in financial information.
For lo, criminal hackers follow the money. These are your best expenses operators. Willing to bite off a piece of big mamas pie, hackers quickly find tips how to celebrate together with the discount-seeking shoppers. They are masters of human psychology, so, inexperienced customer becomes their prey faster than one can aware it. Frequently prowling through the site, Internet scammers easily provide a high-class alienation of names, mailing and billing addresses, phone numbers, truncated credit card numbers and “cryptographically scrambled” passwords. All that becomes an uncompromised tool in hacker’ hand. Large sum of money will then be transferred with the aid of bank insiders from victim’s account to an unknown accounts under the pretence of been agent to the online retail dealers
2012 sales season became a fateful for Zappos and a big fun for hackers. The same story with Konga and Jumia, based in Nigeria online retailers have proved to be successfully but paid a big price.
Among the most common hackers’ tactics – fake shopping apps, question deals and sales that seem too good to be true, attractive travel packages and other great surprises. However, about 10 percent of people who receive infected links are likely to take the bait. “The thing people need to understand is the crime of identity theft isn’t just about credit card data,” Rohrbaugh, vice president of information security at Internet security consulting firm Intersections warns.
Also, be sure to use strong passwords, and only shop on well-known, trusted sites.
We recommend Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg and any other retailers that have a strong brick-and-mortar presence. Crutchfield and Buydig are a couple of sites that we’ve used and had nothing but success with.
