When the time come to upgrade your speaker with latest smart speaker, you have several questions in your mind.
But it's really you are taking a good direction to upgrade with the latest technology.

Now-a-days it is become more easier to list a tech companies which doesn't sell their own smart speakers, so there are some amount of options which are overwhelming.

The speaker like Echo hit the market in 2015 on the same Google Nest followed by the next year & also the Apple's Home Pod somewhere around 2018.

It is not very difficult to choose you must follow some features based upon artificial intelligence it carries- the smart speaker have three configuration you need to follow: size, audio, quality & price.

Most of the time, the experience of other users deciding the best factor of choosing your smart speaker.

Many cyber criminals are busy in adapting their weapons and attack strategies which is ruthlessly roaming the web in search of the next big score.

The every confidential information let's say for employee records or customer financial data, all are subjected to relentless threats as per cybersecurity.

There are certain tools used by network manager to successfully guard the severe threats from hackers,malware,viruses and also a botnet attacks, these tools and methods were fit well as per the comprehensive cyber defense strategy.

Firstly you need to know what are botnets?

In a simple way, botnet is one of the hacking weapon through which they infiltrate the networks and unauthorisely access the computers which allow malware to continue it's operation without disruption of user.

Today I am here to discuss some of the killer steps to avoid botnets:

1. Make sure your VPN has a kill switch

VPN allows users to access confidential information by connecting the VPN to public network.The VPN switch in place means to keep sensitive data say for IP address get prevent from being trasmitted into the unsecures connection.

2. Develop robust system and block fraudulent emails

As I must say for the JAVA developers, as you people know that Java is one of the robust language through which you can create such kind of system.It has been observe that business emails that is mostly common attack stategy. Be sure you must install the tools to avoid i.e, Websense, McAfee to block receipt of email from unknown source.

For this I am going to share one of the example, during my college days one of my friend's father facing the same issue. Around 2012-2013, Gmail chat was very popular on those days. Both father and son chat with each other.
Son: "Hi Dad, I want some money.Can you please send me now?"
Dad: Yes of course, I will do a net-banking to you.

By using the botnet technique, attacker seen or access the Dad's computer and seen all the net-banking details. When they sent the money, it has not been credited into his son's account. After the investigation, they found someone hacks his son Gmail account. Later on discussion with his son, he doesn't chat and ask for money.

3. Enable Windows Firewall

As this is a very baseline protection against the incoming security threats.If you have networked computer that has alternative adequate firewall protection, then it become necessary to disable Windows firewall.

4. Use Data Filtering

As many botnet malware works by establishing interactions with at least one remote command and control server. To block malicious interaction use data filtering on the information that exist on your network.

5. Break Domain Trust Relationship

Eliminate your password trust to regain tighter control over your accounts. By cautiously controlling your local administrator account is very essential to cut off threats & eradicating them.

6. Enhance OR Increase Your Network Monitoring

As many IT stay for 24-hour in networking monitoring that should be a policy for employing data collection tools that detect unsual activity.

7. Control Network Access Over Proxy Server

By filtering a content through a proxy server is a very practical option for most networks. By routing outbound information through proxy server can head off cyber-criminals.

The US Tech giant Google formed an alliance along with three endpoints security firms that helps to stop malicious apps before they get into the Playstore.

It has been around years of unsuccessfully battling of malware and bad apps in the Playstore and also more than 2.5 billion on Android devices, now Google will finally do something.

Those three firms having the expertise in endpoint security helps to prevent the spread of malware on it's broad ecosystem mobile devices.

The alliance's cheif also aims to provide some better security of the Playstore and also stop those malicious apps before published. For this Google will integrate it's Google play Protect detection systems along with each partner's scanning engines.

The company is constantly removing those malicious apps from the Playstore that might range in the capability from adware and also the spyware for those pretending to legitimate apps say for Instagram but also engage in those malicious activity such as harvesting user credentials.

It has found that the Attorneys General from around 48 US states , District Of Columbia and Puerto Rico has formally opened an antitrust probe into Google with assign of growing government scrutiny of technology giants.

Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who is leading the probe said to focus on Google's by embracing all control of online advertising markets and also the search traffic which may lead to anti-competitive behaviour sometimes harms to consumers.

Some other group of Attorney General were also present at the announcement in Washington described those investigation as "preparatory" and they expected it to expand some other cover issues along with data privacy.

Our tech giants which were once express as engines for the economic growth and also it has rapidly increasingly come under fire for allegedly misusing their punch.

But Google also faces accusations where it web search leads consumers to its products and to detriment of opponent.

Congress is separately hold hearing about the growth of monopoly power into the digital market.

FTC(Federal Trade Commission) also announced recent fines against Google's parent , Alphabet as well as Facebook.

As our world is financially gearing up for 5G, meanwhile Huawei Inc. has announced that they started R&D for 6G technology. Even you may know Huawei is one the key players globally with 5G networks which is already live in some countries say for UL, Sweden and South Korea has started work on 5G just as 4G that was rolled out for the first time.

"Company which has invested around $4 billion since 2009 in 5G as the outcome,the company has 5G chipsets, smartphones, routers, some other transport networks and base stations" told by Joe Kelly, Vice President, IMA at Huawei. In the New Open Source Computing Framework launch conference he also added 5G that will co-exist with 4G.

As what they mean the most telecom operator where they run 4G and 5G in parallel and maybe switch off the older 2G networks.Kelly added a statement "5G will be built on top of 4G".

Kelly reminded that Huawei has started it's R&D for 5G since 2009, which is one of the world's first 4G network went to live in Norway. This is the only process where R&D and telecom overlap.

"As per the consumer point of view, whether they are in India or some other parts of the world, a range changes will come with 5G. Autonomous driving become safe but the IoT will become the mainstream, apart from this the HD 8K televison at home will also be enabled by 5G" told by Kelly in press conference.