Articles Tagged With: security
Beware of DDoS Attacks on Ecommerce Sites
With the holiday shopping season in full swing, some Internet security experts are worried that e... 0 Comments | Read More »
3 Types of ‘Return Fraud’ to Monitor this Holiday Season
Return fraud, which is expected to cost brick-and-mortar retailers $3.48 billion this holiday sea... 2 Comments | Read More »
Ask an Expert: 'Is An SSL Certificate Necessary If I Use a Hosted Payment Solution?'
"Ask an Expert" is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online mer... 0 Comments | Read More »
PCI Council Exec on Criticisms of Security Standards
The major credit card brands of Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover have adopted stan... 2 Comments | Read More »
Denial-of-Service Attack: Steps to Prevent, Defend
If you own an ecommerce website, about the last place you want to find yourself is on the receivi... 2 Comments | Read More »
Radical Ideas to Make Credit Card Payments More Secure
Credit cards approvals are not completely secure because the information those approvals rely on ... 1 Comments | Read More »
PCI-Council General Manager on Non-Compliance 'Russian Roulette'
Most merchants prefer the idea of the credit card industry policing itself, versus lawmakers gett... 3 Comments | Read More »
Microsoft Announces Major Vulnerability in All IE Browsers
Microsoft announced a major vulnerability in all versions of the popular Internet Explorer (IE) w... 1 Comments | Read More »
Legal: Privacy Lessons from the Twitter Breach
Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled a case with Twitter regarding, in th... 0 Comments | Read More »
SSL Certificates: Extended Validation Worth the Cost?
Internet users interact with SSL certificates when they access a web page or transmit data over t... 8 Comments | Read More »
The PeC Review: AVG LinkScanner Identifies Malicious Code
Seventy-one percent of websites that contain malicious code or malware are actually legitimate si... 1 Comments | Read More »
What Is a Denial-of-Service Attack?
Nothing is more frustrating for ecommerce merchants than website downtime. Untold sales may be lo... 0 Comments | Read More »
Survey Results: PCI Standards Helpful, Confusing and Necessary
Our January 2010 reader survey addressed PCI compliance, the self-regulatory attempt by the credi... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Technical Side of PCI DSS
What merchants don't know about the technical side of protecting customer data can be costly. Th... 0 Comments | Read More »
The PeC Review: VeriSign Badge and EV SSL Instill Trust
Customers want to feel safe when they make online purchases. They need to know that the credit ca... 8 Comments | Read More »
Where the PCI Security Council Goes Wrong
While conducting interviews with numerous PCI compliance experts for a series of articles on Prac... 2 Comments | Read More »
