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How to use Google Webmaster Tools for Malware Review

In this documentation, we can check how to use Google webmaster tools (Google Search Console) for malware review. Malware is a malicious code or software which may tends to redirect unsuspecting users away from a compromised site to a website that might host a phishing page. There are several types of malwares and nowadays many are suffering from malware attacks. We can safely remove this malware attack by following the Google recommendations. Once Google detects that your site is hacked, it’ll show the warning page as shown below. If your site has been hacked, please do the following Google recommendation. 1) Quarantine the site.2) Diagnose the issue.3) Clean up the site.4) Ask Google to review. Quarantine the site The important action which you have to do once Google detects that your site has been hacked is to take your site down. So we can prevent hackers from abusing the system. Next important step is to contact YISolution Support Team and ask them to take some prevention method to safe other sites they hosted. Also make sure to change all accounts and users passwords. Diagnose the issue Once you have completed the action to prevent the site from infecting, then identify the reason why your site has been hacked. You can do the following steps. a) Scan your site. You can use any scanning method and check the detected malware codes. b) Visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostics page to get information about what Google’s automatic scanners have found. You can use the following link. c) Check the malware page in search console to lists the sample URLs from the site has been identified as containing infected codes. d) Use the URL removal tool to request removal of infected pages. e) Check the antiphishing.org recommendation on dealing with infected sites. Clean Up The Site Next step is to clean up the spam contented, newly added pages, suspicious codes identified by scanners. Also you can delete all site contents if you have the good backups and restore the site using that backup. Request Google To Review Once you have completely cleaned your sites, you can request Google to review the site. Google will check your site and will remove the warning label within 24 hours if no malware found. Please note that you should inform Google that you are aware of the issue and have taken necessary actions to prevent this. Then Google puts your site on priority list, so that it should be scanned within 24 hours. How to Register your site in Google Webmaster Tool (Search Console). a) Access Google Webmaster Tools ( https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools ) and login with your gmail account. b) Enter your domain name in the text box and click the button ‘Add Property’. c) Then you should verify your ownership. You can either use ‘Recommended Methods’ or ‘Alternative Methods’. d) Click ‘Verify’ button. e) Once you have verified your site ownership, you will be able to access the features of Google Webmaster Tool (Search Console) Please follow the steps given below to send a review request. a) Access Webmaster Tools. b) Click on the site that is being flagged from the Webmaster Tools home page. c) In Dashboard, you can see a large red banner across the top of the dashboard that says ‘This site may be distributing malware’. Click the link and expands the option ‘More Details’ to reveal a list of pages on the site that were found to be malicious. d) Below this, you can see a link that says “Request a Review’. Fill out the details and click the button ‘Request a Review’ to initiate the review process. Then Google will review your site and will remove the warning if site is clean and secured.
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Private SSL vs Shared SSL vs Self Signed

When it comes to protecting your website with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, there are a bunch of factors to consider when choosing the right one for your needs. One of the things people get confused about is the difference between a Private vs. Shared SSL Certificate. In fact there are three main types to choose from, and we’re going to break them down for you. Self-Signed SSL Certificate These certificates are not signed by a trusted Certificate Authority and can be generated for free. They can provide the same level of encryption and can be used in closed, for example, test environments. However, they don’t provide authentication i.e. assurance that the server you connect to belongs to the owner of the domain name. In other words, self-signed certificates do not protect from Man in the middle attacks. Self-signed SSLs are not recommended, especially when users are going to interact with them in browsers, because browsers don’t recognise Self-Signed SSL Certificates as secure and will flag them as invalid with a warning. This, and the fact that they’re not backed by the cybersecurity industry, means the Self-Signed option is not a good idea for publicly available services. Shared SSL Certificate Popular these days, as you can get them for free. The way it works is they aren’t tied to a specific domain, like mydomainname.com. Instead, they usually cover entire servers that host a number of domains or subdomains. These SSLs are generated, installed and managed by the hosting or CDN (Content Delivery Network) providers and site owners have little or no access to them. They cannot use these certificates outside the hosting or CDN platform that is in use, reissue or revoke (invalidate) the SSL. This means that if a shared certificate is compromised, all the domains covered by it would be put at risk and site owners would not be able to mitigate the situation by revoking the SSL certificate. You should only use shared SSL certificates from providers you can trust. Free shared SSL Certificates also don’t come with a warranty, or dedicated support. So if things go wrong, there’s no backup. Private SSL Certificate This type of SSL Certificate is issued by a registered, industry recognised Certificate Authority, and distributed by SSL providers. There are a range of them to suit different online needs. Instead of covering a server hosting multiple domains like the Shared SSLs, Private Certificates are connected to the exact domain(s) you specify e.g. mydomainname.com. The site or domain owner has full access to the SSL certificate and can use it on multiple servers, reissue and revoke it. You also have the option of getting Organization Validation (OV) or Extended Validation (EV). To cautious customers who check out what type of SSL Certificate protects your website, is this means trust — with OV and EV, the Certificate Authority goes through in depth checks to verify that you have a legit. This added trust is why ecommerce websites tend to prefer the Private SSL option. ITBrands.pk – All Top SSL Brands under One Brand
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What is Cloud Services?

What is Cloud Services Cloud services refer to any IT services that are provisioned and accessed from a cloud computing provider. This is a broad term that incorporates all delivery and service models of cloud computing and related solutions. Cloud services are delivered over the internet and accessible globally from the internet. Types of Cloud Computing Services IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) 1st Time in Pakistan, HostingParner.pk introduce Cloud Shared Hosting
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What is Cloud Hosting?

What is Cloud Hosting Simply stated, Cloud hosting is a server and network infrastructure that uses software to divide a single physical server into multiple virtual servers. Often, these devices are referred to as virtual machines, or VMs. Recently, businesses have begun moving towards cloud hosting to meet their everyday needs. These servers may be used for web hosting, application development, or remote-accessible desktop work environments, and much more. Types of Cloud Hosing ( deployment model) Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Managed Cloud 1st Time in Pakistan, HostingParner.pk introduce Cloud Shared Hosting
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USB Flash Drive Malware

USB Malware USB drives have been around for over 20 years, offering users a convenient method to store and move files between computers that aren’t digitally connected to each other. Cyber threat actors have routinely abused this capability with the most famous example being the ‘world’s first digital weapon,’ the Stuxnet worm first discovered back in 2010, which used USB devices to attack the network of an Iranian nuclear facility. In 2017, a Kaspersky Lab data study revealed that every year around one in four USB users across the globe are affected by a ‘local’ cyber incident. This can refer to breaches that result from viruses that are present on the user’s computer or are introduced by infected removable media. How Do USB Devices Get Infected with Malware? It’s possible to come across both unintentional and intentional infection. The Stuxnet worm is an example of the latter, where someone uploads malicious code onto the drive with the intention of filtering the code into the targeted network. Unintentional infection might occur when someone plugs an unprotected USB into a poorly safeguarded system in an internet cafe, airport or anywhere with poor public endpoint security (which is about 70% of places). You may detect the virus sometime after you’ve plugged the device into your machine, but there’s no telling what damage may have already been done. How to Defeat USB Drive Malware: Software Security Write Protectors – If your USB drive doesn’t include a hardware switch for write protection, then you should be using a software write protector, such as USB Write Protect 2.0. A software write protector will effectively prevent any data from being deleted as well as protect the device from malware being written onto your drive. USB Anti-Virus – If you have write protection enabled, there is still a possibility of contracting a virus when you go to transfer files, so it makes sense to use a decent USB anti-virus such as ClamWin. Encryption – If you’re looking to protect your privacy by securing your data, you could install an encryption program like VeraCrypt or BitLocker to Windows for password protection on your USB device. This means that even if someone has access to your device, it will make it much harder for them to retrieve sensitive information or hide malicious files inside your existing files and folders. Protect Your Host Device – If your device is unintentionally infected, you probably won’t know about it immediately. The best thing to do is to protect yourself from the outset by installing software that will inform you if your removable device is infected with malicious malware. USB Firewall will protect your computer from third-party programmes introduced from a USB device by running in the background and informing you of suspicious activity. Self-Destruct Flash drives, such as Ironkey, will ‘self-destruct’ if the password is entered incorrectly too many times. There are also some flash drives which are configured to delete files after a certain period. Hardware Encryption – If you need to transfer serious data onto a flash drive, you could opt for a flash drive with 128-bit AES hardware encryption. Hardware encryption is often considered a better option than software encryption since it doesn’t carry the same risk of getting hacked.
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What is Malware?

Malware The term malware is a contraction of malicious software. Put simply, malware is any piece of software that was written with the intent of damaging devices, stealing data, and generally causing a mess. Viruses, Trojans, spyware, and ransomware are among the different kinds of malware. Malware is often created by teams of hackers: usually, they’re just looking to make money, either by spreading the malware themselves or selling it to the highest bidder on the Dark Web. However, there can be other reasons for creating malware too — it can be used as a tool for protest, a way to test security, or even as weapons of war between governments.
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What is e-Security?

e-Security In simple terms, eSecurity (or internet security) covers a range of activities to keep electronic information secure. e-Security or Internet security is a branch of computer security specifically related to not only Internet, often involving browser security and the World Wide Web, but also network security as it applies to other applications or operating systems as a whole. Its objective is to establish rules and measures to use against attacks over the Internet. The Internet represents an insecure channel for exchanging information, which leads to a high risk of intrusion or fraud, such as phishing, online viruses, trojans, worms and more.
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What is ERP?

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Enterprise resource planning (ERP) refers to a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and compliance, and supply chain operations. A complete ERP suite also includes enterprise performance management, software that helps plan, budget, predict, and report on an organization’s financial results. ERP systems tie together a multitude of business processes and enable the flow of data between them. By collecting an organization’s shared transactional data from multiple sources, ERP systems eliminate data duplication and provide data integrity with a single source of truth. Today, ERP systems are critical for managing thousands of businesses of all sizes and in all industries. To these companies, ERP is as indispensable as the electricity that keeps the lights on.
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How to Setup a Google AdWords Re-marketing Campaign

How to Setup a Google AdWords Remarketing Campaign !!! Remarketing campaigns through Google AdWords offer advertisers an additional tactic to drive potentially high value visitors back to their website in an effort to grow overall conversion figures. Remarketing campaigns allow businesses to stay connected with their target audience after they leave their website by showing ads to them on other websites across the web. Users who have already visited your website are likely to be more engaged with your brand messaging and offering after their first visit. Typically, returning visitors browse more pages and convert more often when coming back to a website after their first time. That said, re-marketing can be an extremely powerful tool when working to increase the ROAS (return on ad spend) of your pay-per-click marketing efforts. While re-marketing can be a powerful channel for digital marketers, setting up your first campaign can be a challenge. To help with that, we’ve provided a step-by-step guide to create your first Google AdWords re-marketing campaign. Step By Step Guide to Create Adword Re-Marketing Campaign There are three core components of setup required to create and activate a re-marketing campaign for your Google AdWords account. The first step is to create an audience to re-market to. This re-marketing audience is used to pool website visitors who then can be re-marketed to. Called a ‘remarketing list,’ the audience specified is essentially a collection of users who qualify based on requirements set by an advertiser. The second step required in this process is to create a re-marketing campaign within your Google AdWords account. Creating this kind of campaign is similar to the standard campaign setup in AdWords. Lastly, advertisers need to add a series of text or image ads into the created campaign. Through this blog post, we will show how to upload image ads into your campaign for re-marketing purposes. Create a Re-marketing List in Google AdWords After logging into your Google AdWords account, click the ‘Shared Library’ link in the lower left navigation bar. Then click into the ‘Audiences’ section If this is your first time re-marketing, you will need to add a re-marketing tag to your website. This small snippet of code allows for visitors to be tagged with a cookie required for your re-marketing ads to be shown to them once off your website. If you click through to ‘Tag details’ you’ll be able to access a tag that you can install on your website. You can email this tag to your technical support team, if you do not feel comfortable installing it. Make sure this tag is installed on every web page on your site. Doing so will give you more freedom to run a variety of re-marketing campaigns to reach your ad group. In any case, once you’ve installed the tag, you need to create a ‘Re-marketing list.’To do that, click on Re-marketing List,’ which can be found in the Shared library section. You then have to decide how AdWords chooses who it will re-market to, by telling it what data you want it to use What you pick here will depend on the data that you currently have/can supply. Let’s take a look at how you can set up a re-marketing campaign that’s based on the ‘Website visitors’ option. Make sure that you give your Re-marketing list a specific name, so that you can quickly identify what the purpose of the list is, when you go back to check on your campaigns. Once again, your campaign goals will determine who you should add to your re-marketing lists. If you want to take full advantage of these options, you need to make sure you have installed the re-marketing tag on all of your web pages. Once you’ve decided on an option, you need to provide the relevant URL that matches what you’re trying to achieve. Re-marketing Campaign in Google AdWords Once your re-marketing list has been created, it’s time to turn your attention to creating the re-marketing campaign in AdWords. To initiate the process, navigate to the ‘Campaigns’ tab of your AdWords account and click the ‘+Campaign’ button. Then select ‘Display Network only.’ Next, name your first ad group (typically the same name as the audience you created), set an initial default bid, and then select ‘Interests & re-marketing’ as the targeting option. Once selected, a drop down will appear. Select ‘Remarketing lists’ as the targeting category. Click the arrow to the right of the ‘All Visitors’ list to select it. Completing this process has now assigned the re-marketing list you created to the re-marketing campaign being put together. That’s it! After creating your re-marketing list, re-marketing campaign, and uploading your ads, your campaign is all ready to serve ads. Please keep in mind that when adding image ads, Google usually puts those through a review process. During that review, your ads will not be eligible to show. Typically that review process is no more than 24 hours long. Digital Media Booster– One of the Top Re-Marketing Agency in Pakistan
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Importance of an SSL Certificates

The Purpose of using SSL Certificates SSL is the backbone of our secure Internet and it protects your sensitive information as it travels across the world’s computer networks. SSL is essential for protecting your website, even if it doesn’t handle sensitive information like credit cards. It provides privacy, critical security and data integrity for both your websites and your users‘ personal information. SSL Protects Data The core function of an SSL certificate is to protect server-client communication. On installing SSL, every bit of information is encrypted. In layman’s terms, the data is locked and can only be unlocked by the intended recipient (browser or server) as no one else can have the key to open it. While dealing with sensitive data such as IDs, passwords, credit card numbers, etc., SSL helps you protect against the mischievous army of hackers and skimmers. As the data is turned into the undecipherable format by SSL, hacker’s skills prove to be an edgeless sword against the unsurpassable encryption technology of SSL certificates. SSL Affirms Your Identity The second primary task of an SSL certificate is to provide authentication to a website. Identity verification is one of the most important aspects as far as web security is concerned. There is no doubt about the fact that the internet is increasingly deceptive. In 2009, a guy traveled 400 miles to meet a girl he had met on Facebook, only to discover that he was being duped by two guys who supported a rival football club. However, not all such stories are funny. There have been cases in which people have lost thousands of dollars on fake websites. This is where SSL certificate comes into play. When you want to install an SSL certificate, you must go through a validation process set by an independent third party called a Certificate Authority (CA). Depending on the type of certificate, the CA verifies the identity of you and your organization. Once you have proved your identity, your website gets trust indicators vouching for your integrity. When users see them, they know who they’re talking to. Better Search Engine Ranking In 2014, Google made changes to its algorithm in order to give the upper hand to HTTPS-enabled websites. This has been evident in various studies conducted by SEO experts around the world.  Who doesn’t want to be on Google’s first page, right? Google Makes SSL Mandatory in 2018 To give a safer web browsing experience from 2018 onwards, Google has decided to flag the websites which do not have an SSL/TLS Certificate installed on their website. If anyone fails to comply with this rule, all the popular web browsers used around the globe like Google Chrome & Firefox Mozilla will punish them by giving a warning message of ‘Not Secure’ on the URL bar. It could be possible that in near future website may even get blocked to load on the browser. No matter which website you have, from a personal blog to any shopping portal SSL is mandatory and by not following with it may result in loss of visitors which is not something a website owner would like to face. SSL Helps You Satisfy PCI/DSS Requirements If you accept online payments, you must know a thing or two about PCI/DSS requirements. To receive online payments, your website must be PCI compliant. Having an SSL certificate installed is one of the 12 primary requirements set by the payment card industry (PCI). Therefore, SSL is essential—whether you want it or not. SSL Improves Customer Trust If it were up to us, we’d have renamed SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to TTL (Trust Transmitting Layer). Fortunately, it isn’t. But that won’t stop us from singing the praises of a TTL —err, SSL certificate. Apart from encryption and authentication, SSL certificates are vital from a customer trust point of view. The easy to identify signs inform the users that the data they send will be secured. And if you’ve installed an OV or EV SSL, they can see your organization’s details. Once they know that you’re a legitimate entity, they’re far more likely to do business with you or even revisit your site. ITBrands.pk – All Top SSL Brands under One Brand
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