2008-01-28T06:11:55-07:00 Practical Ecommerce info@practicalecommerce.com http://www.practicalecommerce.com/ Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing DBA Practical Ecommerce http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/376/Fraud-Proofing-Your-Ebiz/#comment4770 2008-01-28T06:11:55-07:00

The single most important thing with lists is that they have to be simple to use. Anything that takes more than three seconds to use will be great for about a week. After that only half the items get put in, worse than nothing. Text file on the desktop is the one, so long as you can avoid spending half an hour making it look nice every time you open it. Ten minutes every morning organising it then the rest of the day getting things crossed off.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/376/Fraud-Proofing-Your-Ebiz/#comment3220 2007-07-03T20:13:52-07:00

Regarding the clone war: What you said is good information that every site should know. But trying to stop a clone site is a lot easier said than done. First you have to be able to get a phone number and/or email address that's valid. And they usually don't answer anyway. Threatening their ISP only results in that ISP saying "take us to court and prove it." Lets face it, the ISP is making money from the clone so why help you? If you can find the registrar, good luck there. What's in it for them? to help you Unless you have a lot of money and time to burn it is very difficult to actually get a clone shut down. The problem is the lack of any governing body that enforces such things. The web is still the wild west with very few marshals and lots of bad guys looking to steal your ideas. Being innovative, providing quality content, and SEO goes a long way to making sure the clones don't get much.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/376/Fraud-Proofing-Your-Ebiz/#comment2138 2007-05-17T17:19:40-07:00

I own an ecommerce site and have been in business for at least a decade. This past month, my GATEWAY was hacked and in excess of 4,000 credit card numbers were authorized (within 2 days). Where is the security? This anomaly should have rung out fast and furious within the Authorize.net system since my company does nowhere near that amount of business. More than half a month has transpired and it is still "in review." (My MSP, on the other hand, immediately reversed all charges.) I reported the situation to the FBI and they told me this is happening more and more to small businesses. Is anyone else outraged?

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/376/Fraud-Proofing-Your-Ebiz/#comment1507 2007-04-23T21:37:09-07:00

Excellent article. Now the bad news. If a hacker wants to break in, it's a done deal. Might take a few long days. Met a professional hacker for a large accounting firm. Told me that he has never been stopped from getting root access to a server. Make sure you have a lot of liablity insurance if you're an ecommerce site or put the legalese on your site to give yourself some protection. It's a shame but there are some major companies that will tell you their sob story right now (cough tjm/marshalls cough). Best wishes. Scott Neuman - Recordweb.com

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/376/Fraud-Proofing-Your-Ebiz/#comment223 2007-01-29T22:27:15-07:00

Jim - I am a technology advisor for Parsippany Chamber of Commerce (www.parsippanychamber.org) -- I would like reprint rights so I can distribute your article to members? Please advise. flcahill@parsippanychamber.org.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/376/Fraud-Proofing-Your-Ebiz/#comment144 2007-01-11T16:29:13-07:00

Jim said: "Be careful of any shareware you download and use because it can contain spyware and even viruses intended to steal critical information." My comment: Shareware is not a type of software, but rather a marketing method. The method is used by Symantic, Microsoft, and a few other little companied you may have heard of, even if they do not use the term "shareware" in their advertising. The Association of Shareware Professionals [ASP] has fought for years to disentangle the erroneous association of properly obtained software, that happens to be marketed as shareware, with harmful computer code such as viruses and spy ware. In general, software marketed via shareware channels and other commercial software is normally virus-free. Indeed, the basis of shareware marketing is TBYB [try-before-you-buy]. Companies that integrate the shareware marketing method in their core business model [over 10,000 of them!] would no more want to distribute a virus or Trojan than...

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/376/Fraud-Proofing-Your-Ebiz/#comment110 2007-01-08T08:10:13-07:00

Great article Jim, I would like to add one thing that many people are still unaware of even though its becoming so critical for business online. Ensure that ALL your providers online are PCI/CISP certified. PCI/CISP are strict new standards for conducting business online set down by the credit card industry (visa, mastercard, etc) and only the MOST secure systems can become certified. PCI/CISP very clearly outlines how data should be stored, and transmitted online. 1ShoppingCart.com was one of the first eCommerce solutions to become fully certified in 2006, but you have to ensure every company in your payment process has been certified as well. If you want to learn more about PCI/CISP, you can read our page at: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/pci-cisp-shopping-cart.asp you will find links back to the appropriate pages at Visa here also. Michael Valiant http://blog.1shoppingcart.com