Tweet The State of The PCI Union in 2012 is poor, very poor. That is my conclusion after many months of observing, working with, and fighting against the PCI scanning companies that are trying to enforce PCI standards. What we do As a web host that caters to ecommerce clients, we deal with PCI issues […]

Tweet Captcha – That always hard to read, seriously infuriating, takes 7 tries to get right, security measure designed to cut down on fraud. In many situations, a Captcha image is needed and is quite helpful in weeding out the spam and bots from real people. But is the checkout page on an ecommerce store […]

Tweet Have you had your site hacked and services such as Google Safe Browsing are marking your site as a source of Malware?  Once you’ve cleaned your site, your computer, and you’re back up and running, you may still have a few things left to do in order to fully recover from the effects of […]

As of June 1st, having regular FTP enabled on your website invalidates PCI. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) is what governs the rules and regulations for securing credit card data.

If you’re an ecommerce merchant and accept credit cards, you are required to be PCI compliant. Failure to be PCI compliant can subject your company to fees and fines.

PCI – The 3 letter word that is a 4 letter word to most merchants.

PCI Compliance has become a mandatory event for any business that accepts credit cards. But even after years of refinement and streamlining, it’s still an arduous task for many merchants. Especially the small business owners.

It doesn’t have to be this way…

A recent report from Netcraft found that Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates continue to gain ground and are being used on more websites. This from data collected over a four year period.

Some reports point out that EV certs account for a only a percent or two of total SSL certificates in use. This is a misleading stat. This statistic includes free websites and very low traffic sites, which are not a good representation of ecommerce websites.

Netcraft found that almost one-third of the top 1,000 busiest websites that have an SSL certificate are using an EV certificate. That’s a number worth noting…

Tweet Last week, United Parcel Service (UPS) switched their main www.ups.com SSL certificate from VeriSign to Comodo (both VeriSign and Comodo provide SSL certificates). What should have been a non-event instead caused headaches for many ecommerce merchants… Why the switch www.ups.com previously had a VeriSign SSL certificate that was up for renewal. It seems UPS […]

Ever spend endless time trying to find that one, tiny, insecure image call on your secure check-out page that’s causing the padlock to be broken in every web browser? I have. Many times.

And I’m betting you have too. In fact, it is one of the things that frustrates us the most when helping clients track down security problems.

So we decided to come up with a solution to take the pain out of this long search…

Your domain name and SSL certificate are important pieces of digital real estate. Don’t let them expire, or you could not only lose sales, but lose your internet name forever. Take one simple step to make sure these deadlines are never missed.

No one wants their website to be hacked. I’m sure you don’t want malware and malicious code inserted into your web pages. It causes all kinds of headaches trying to find the entry point, secure it, and then the painstaking process of cleaning it up.