Once the wedding season gets over, we have celebrations like Christmas and New years just around the corner. The onset of the festive season gives a large avenue for the e commerce websites to cash in by showering festive shopping discounts, offers on various brands, merchandise and services. The e commerce hustle and bustle during these festivals poses to be a potential gold mine for online thieves.
While making your purchases online, thus saving on your valuable time, it is utterly important to save yourself from falling prey to cyber-crime.
Based on Kaspersky Lab’s world-wide insight into malicious software and online scammers, the company offers the following 10 warnings and tips for online shoppers:
Tip Number 1: If you see a deal being promoted, go to the retailer’s official website to confirm that it’s a legitimate offer. Don’t click on shared links without knowing that your friend purposefully shared it. And as always, if a deal seems too good to be true…it probably is.
Tip Number 2: Any mobile computing device you use to connect to the Internet should have security software installed on it. Any mobile computing device used to purchase things from eBay, snapdeal, myntra, etc.
Tip number 3: When outside your home network, disable the Wi-Fi connectivity of your smartphone. Most smartphones will automatically try to connect when a Wi-Fi signal is detected, so disabling this function will keep the data on your phone or tablet safe from prying eyes.
Besides these three tips, Kaspersky Lab has created seven more holiday shopping guidelines in the accompanying info-graphic.
