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5 Ways to Protect Your Ecommerce Business

CyberSecurity Insiders

Cyber attackers, fraudsters, and hackers target both small-scale, midsized, and large online ecom enterprises. . . This portrays a grim picture for ecommerce businesses — filled with data breaches and irate customers. Internet scammers are cunning criminals. Share your online store’s policies and run a test payment.

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BrandPost: The Top Ten Industries Under Cyber Attack

CSO Magazine

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive shift in internet usage, cybercriminals quickly pounced, launching more than 10 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ) attacks aimed at crippling targets with a heavy reliance on online services. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Basics of eCommerce Website Security

SiteLock

To get you started, we cover four basic— yet essential —website security tips to protect your eCommerce site. PCI compliance is a security requirement created by major credit card brands in an attempt to reduce fraud and increase eCommerce security. You want more traffic to your eCommerce site. What is PCI compliance?

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The 10 Most Common Website Security Attacks (and How to Protect Yourself)

The State of Security

Every website on the Internet is somewhat vulnerable to security attacks. The threats range from human errors to sophisticated attacks by coordinated cyber criminals. According to the Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon, the primary motivation for cyber attackers is financial.

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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. Sophisticated cyber-attacks continue apace, hence the Solar Winds supply-chain hack , the Colonial Winds ransomware attack and President Biden’s cybersecurity initiatives.

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GUEST ESSAY: Improved ‘data governance’ can help companies meet today’s security challenges

The Last Watchdog

There has been a rapid rise in the number of cyber-attacks in recent years affecting organizations in sectors as diverse as eCommerce, retail, infrastructure, and social media. Related: Biden issues much needed cybersecurity exec order. Protecting data. Many businesses, by and large, have lost control of their data.

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WordPress and the Dark Side of Defacements

SiteLock

For Conway-Williams, the defaced website was not an eCommerce or large business website, in fact, the website owners did not even know about the defacement until Conway-Williams contacted them. Regardless of whether your website is a personal blog, a small eCommerce site, or a corporate business, you are at risk of a cyber attack.