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Your Credit Card Company is Failing You!
In this post I will protect some of the names/information of the people and businesses involved for obvious reasons, and ONLY the innocent were protected. But rest assured your credit card company is screwing everyone, including you! On January 1st 2014 an ecommerce store received and order for $120.19 (which is about average). This payment…
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Securing Your Website for PCI
Securing your website, no matter what kind of website, can be a big job. Most of things you need to do are common sense and awareness. We don’t expect you to know how to sanitize database queries, but rather that you know and realize that there are resources and standards to to use and follow.…
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PCI, Passwords & Aggravation
With June 30th creeping up on us we are rushing to upgrade websites, upgrade servers, secure mail, block port access, require password strength and rotation and of course block hackers from websites. PCI/DSS compliance is a daunting thing, it looms over our heads as a potential to be heavily fined for not obeying its standards.…
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Brand Damaging & What it Means to Ecommerce
It’s not really Greek, in a nutshell, if you, your practices, your security or your products and services are a bad risk, Visa Mastercard feels that this damages their brand.