The greatest threat to security is almost always people. In a highly publicised incident, former US President Bill Clinton was deemed to have given an improper example when he signed the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act in June 2000. The password he had chosen when signing the bill? He picked ‘Buddy’, the…
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Faced with a variety of local and international web host companies, you’re probably wondering: how do I choose a good web host? To understand how to choose a good web host, it is also important for you to know why you need one. A web host provides you with web hosting services, which means it…
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If you are running an e-business, would you have allocated investment to prevent security threats to your business data? If your answer is yes, continue with your efforts and you would be able to reap the benefits in time. For those who answered no, you may want to rethink your business strategy. Why? Because security threats to…
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To get your business online, there are three points you need to remember: Firstly, you have to get a domain name that reflects your business and what you do. Secondly, decide what you want in your website and get it designed (or in most cases, you would do it yourself). Thirdly, you should shop around…
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We’ve all heard the big claims: how people make a fortune on the Internet. How people make thousands of dollars by selling their products and services on their websites. How people can afford to quit their day jobs and go full-time into their Web endeavors. You think it would be fun to join the Internet…
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New Straits Times, Computimes Section (November 20, 2003) Aspiring technopreneurs sometimes come up with brilliant ideas that could rake in profits if their solutions are marketed well enough. However, many of them are unable to turn their ideas into reality due to limited finances. Borrowing as much as possible from friends and family members, these…
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Business Times, 20 Jan 2004 THE forces shaping a developing country like Malaysia are vastly different from Europe or the US, so direct comparisons would expectedly, and unfairly, draw large gaps. Relative to these countries, the Malaysian venture-capitalist (VC) industry is still in its infancy! So when Mavcap first started up, expectations abounded about the…
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MSC Trustgate.com Head of Research and Development, Dr. Seah Boon Keong, has warned that apart from security threats of viruses, unauthorised access to corporate data and information is also on the rise. “Companies in Malaysia must seriously be aware of these threats as the common use of user ID and password as a form of security protection is…
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Several weeks ago I finally took the plunge into the world of network marketing. I had been running an online business for almost three years by then but knew that I would have to make the leap to network marketing at some point since it was such an obvious fit with Internet marketing. And I haven’t been…
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The Internet has been likened by many to the vast frontier faced by those who took to the wild west in search of gold. The enormity of its potential certainly draws many a gold seeker … but just as the gold diggers of old had to stake their claim before digging for gold, so too…
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