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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. As per our research, here are five tried-and-tested techniques to protect your ecommerce digital business from dangerous online frauds. eCommerce fraud prevention tools process information from clients and servers in real time.

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4 Easy Steps to Protect Your WordPress Site

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Whether just taking the plunge into the WordPress wonderland to launch a personal blog or full-fledged ecommerce site, or you’ve been using WordPress for a while now, it was a good choice. Backup Your Files and Database. Note that some premium plugins and themes are a button click away from the latest release. Use Strong Passwords.

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New Cybersecurity Advisory on Ransomware Threat Actors

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A sharp increase in technological reliance, be it through eCommerce or remote work, heightens the risk of cyber threats. Due to the level of access gained before deploying ransomware, the issue cannot be resolved by simply restoring data from backup.". We've seen it before: cybercriminals will always exploit a bad situation.

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How to Start a Secure Online Business from Home

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A very simple business plan can help you stay on track and help determine what you will sell, how much to charge, how you will receive payments, how to attract customers, technology you may need, and more. An ecommerce platform or plugin if you will need the ability to conduct transactions online directly from your site.

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The 2019 Database Gold Rush

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What makes this type of attack attractive, is the fact that there are often ways to export database contents from within an administrative control panel in a CMS by allowing the attacker to utilize database management or backup solutions within the control panel. Brute force attacks are similar to privilege escalation in results.

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How to Protect WordPress Sites from Exploitation

SecureWorld News

However, users must be mindful and methodical when setting up, for example, an eCommerce site in WordPress; it's wise to look beyond the real-world SEO benefits and design flexibility and consider factors like data integrity and security. Schedule daily backups to create multiple restore points.

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Top 4 Tips to Get Ahead of Security Threats

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By inserting a simple piece of code into an ecommerce site, formjackers can steal customers’ personal identifiable information (PII) as they enter it. • Prepare for disaster recovery with Website Backup. Additionally, cybercriminals aren’t the only reason you need regular site backups.

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