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5 Ways to Protect Your Ecommerce Business

CyberSecurity Insiders

This portrays a grim picture for ecommerce businesses — filled with data breaches and irate customers. As per our research, here are five tried-and-tested techniques to protect your ecommerce digital business from dangerous online frauds. Internet scammers are cunning criminals. Create strong passwords. Injection frauds.

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One in nine online stores are leaking your data, says study

Malwarebytes

eCommerce security company Sansec has revealed it's found a number of online stores accidentally leaking highly sensitive data. Start checking if backup files are open to the public internet and, if they are, close them immediately, and investigate the store for any signs of compromise. Implement two-factor authentication (2FA).

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GUEST ESSAY: Restore Us Institute (RUI) aims to protect Americans from online harms and crimes

The Last Watchdog

How did America and Americans regress to being much less secure than before the Internet? Everyone knows the many amazing conveniences, benefits, and advances the Internet has enabled. The internet was designed that way.” A recent Council on Foreign Relations report confronts this irrational Internet utopianism. “

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The Rise of Passkeys

Duo's Security Blog

Background This problem really came to a head when the internet rapidly grew from a government project to a major medium for electronic commercial transactions. Thanks to the application of advanced math and science, Public Key Cryptography was used to develop a means of securing ecommerce over the internet.

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SHARED INTEL: Automating PKI certificate management alleviates outages caused by boom

The Last Watchdog

PKI and digital certificates were pivotal in the formation of the commercial Internet, maturing in parallel with ecommerce. This is how we authenticate human and machine identities and move encrypted data between endpoints. Related: A primer on advanced digital signatures. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Announcing Expanded WebAuthn Support for MFA

Duo's Security Blog

With this release, many high security and low friction authentication methods were made available. It is behind the widescale growth of ecommerce on the internet. WebAuthn allows servers to register and authenticate users using Public Key Cryptography. How do users enroll? What makes these methods so secure?

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The Three Tenets of Zero Trust Security

SecureWorld News

Today, security requirements have shifted dramatically, with many companies deploying a hybrid or remote work model because of the pandemic—and a broad and ongoing shift to cloud and ecommerce. The enterprise perimeter has been obliterated.

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