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5 Ways to Protect Your Ecommerce Business

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This portrays a grim picture for ecommerce businesses — filled with data breaches and irate customers. Again, if you don’t secure your clients’ data, you can end up losing their trust, income, and maybe have your brand tarnished. . Again, make a trial payment to see what data you have access to.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 229 – News of the week

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Hostinger disclosed a data breach that affects 14 Million customers. Binance says that leaked KYC Data are from third-party vendor. Imperva data Breach: WAF customers data exposed. Magecart hackers compromise another 80 eCommerce sites. FIN6 recently expanded operations to target eCommerce sites.

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The OWASP Top 10: Sensitive Data Exposure

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Sensitive data exposure is an all too common cyberthreat that endangers businesses and their customers, as well as websites and their visitors. billion records containing personal data were compromised as a result of data breaches. Sensitive data exposure can be financially devastating to a website. In 2016, 4.8

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The 2019 Database Gold Rush

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As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. Even without direct database access, the attacker would at least have access to most of the valuable data stored in the database. Brute force attacks are similar to privilege escalation in results. SSL Certificates.

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Top 4 Tips to Get Ahead of Security Threats

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These infections make sites vulnerable to takeovers, defacement and data breaches from bad actors looking to tarnish site reputations and turn a profit – and the costs can be devastating for businesses. In fact, the average data breach now costs businesses $1.9 Prepare for disaster recovery with Website Backup.

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Have board directors any liability for a cyberattack against their company?

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According to research conducted by IBM, the average cost to companies of a data breach in 2022 is US$ 4.35 Furthermore, serial civil actions by individuals whose data has been compromised by a data breach are increasing exponentially also in Europe, backed up by law firms with success fee arrangements in place.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Security Experts Reflect on Safety

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Examples of this include keeping software up to date, backing up data, and maintaining good password practices. At the end of the day, lack of education and human error are two of the largest contributors to data breaches. Our first party data shows that ATO has increased 55% year-over-year! How can that be?