Security Guides
Practical, specific guides written for real situations. No jargon, no scare tactics, and no advice that only works in theory.
17 guides
Servers, Sites & Networks
Spotting a compromised server, cleaning an infected site, and the hardening that actually reduces risk.
Signs Your Server Has Been Compromised (And What to Check First)
The symptoms that actually indicate a compromised server — outbound traffic, unexpected processes, modified files, gaps in logs — and the order to check them in without destroying the evidence.
9 min readYour Website Is Infected With Malware — A Recovery Plan
An ordered recovery plan for a hacked website: contain it without destroying evidence, find the entry point, clean to a verified good state, then get the browser and Google warnings removed.
10 min readServer Hardening Checklist for Small Businesses
The hardening steps that change real risk on one web server: SSH and access, ports and services, TLS, updates and dependencies, logging, least privilege, and backups you have actually restored.
11 min read
Premises & Physical Loss
Recording people lawfully, and the loss patterns that quietly cost a shop or restaurant money every week.
CCTV Monitoring Rules for Indian Businesses
What to get right before recording customers or staff: visible notice, a stated purpose, a retention period you enforce, restricted access to footage, employee monitoring, and where video sits under the DPDP Act.
9 min readHow to Cut Theft and Billing Loss in a Shop or Restaurant
The loss patterns that actually cost Indian retail and food businesses money — counter distraction, unbilled tables, void and refund abuse, stock shrinkage — and the control that catches each one.
10 min read
Small Business
The security work that matters for a small team, in the order it is worth doing.
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses: A Practical Checklist
The security work a small team should do first: accounts and access, invoice fraud, backups, devices, and a one-page incident plan.
10 min readHow to Choose a VAPT Provider in India
What to ask before commissioning a penetration test: scope, methodology, who actually tests, what the report contains, whether a re-test is included — and the answers that should end the conversation.
9 min readDPDP Act Basics for Indian Businesses
A plain-language introduction to India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act for small and mid-sized businesses: what counts as personal data, notice and consent, the rights you must honour, and a practical readiness sequence.
10 min read
Phishing & Scams
Spotting a fake message or link before it costs you, and what to do the moment you realise you clicked.
How to Identify a Phishing Link (With Real Examples)
Read a link before you click it: where the real domain hides, the lookalike tricks that fool almost everyone, and the checks that take five seconds.
7 min readCommon Online Scams in India and How to Avoid Them
UPI collect requests, courier and parcel scams, KYC calls, fake job offers, instant-loan apps and QR fraud — how each one works and the one habit that stops it.
9 min readYou Clicked a Suspicious Link — What to Do Now
A calm, ordered response for the minutes after clicking a phishing link: what to do first, what not to bother with, and when it is actually serious.
6 min read
Account Security
Locking down the accounts that everything else hangs off, and recovering one that has already been taken.
Your Social Media Account Is Hacked — Recovery Steps
An ordered recovery plan for a hacked Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp account, using the platforms' own official recovery routes.
8 min readHow to Enable Two-Factor Authentication (Properly)
Which second factor to choose, why SMS is the weakest option, and the recovery-code step that stops 2FA from locking you out of your own account.
7 min readHow to Secure Your Instagram Account
The Instagram settings that actually matter: 2FA, login activity, connected apps, email security, and the fake-support messages that target creators.
7 min readHow to Secure Your Gmail Account
Your email is the master key to every other account. The Google settings, recovery options and forwarding checks that keep it yours.
7 min read
Passwords
What actually makes a password hard to break, and how to find out if one of yours is already public.
How to Create a Strong Password That You Can Remember
Why length beats symbols, why substituting @ for a fails, and how to build passwords you can actually recall without reusing one.
6 min readHow to Check If Your Password Has Been Compromised
How breach data works, how to check safely without ever sending your password anywhere, and what to change first when a password turns up.
6 min read
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