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E-commerce is the online sale of goods or services through storefronts, marketplaces, mobile apps, and supporting payment and fulfilment systems. Its important assets include customer identities and addresses, payment data or payment tokens, order records, pricing, and account credentials. Availability and transaction integrity matter alongside confidentiality: customers must be able to place orders, and prices, inventory, and delivery details must not be altered improperly.
Security concerns span public websites and APIs, account takeover and payment fraud, vulnerable third-party components, and integrations with payment, logistics, and marketing providers. TLS protects communications, while strong authentication, secure session handling, input validation, patching, and monitoring help protect accounts and transactions. Payment-card environments may fall under PCI DSS; privacy obligations also govern personal data. E-commerce operators need tested controls for detecting fraud, limiting access, preserving audit records, and responding when systems or transaction data are compromised.
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World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace Updated Details of volunteers of UK-based Biobank, which describes itself as the custodian of the world's most comprehensive biomedical dataset, are for sale on Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.…
Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…
Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun Blockchain security biz Ledger says customer information was accessed in a breach at its ecommerce payment partner Global-e, and is warning that other brands using the platform may also be affected.…
China is trying to become that land, with a government crackdown on the things that make the internet no fun Internet echo chambers and nasty e-commerce tricks that analyze your behavior to milk you for more cash are set to be banned – in China.…
Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more in brief The US Department of Justice has charged six people with two separate schemes to defraud Uncle Sam out of millions of dollars connected to IT product and services contracts. …
Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa and several of its properties have been offline for four days after a major cyber attack.…
Nothing says 'sorry' like 10 percent off shipping for a month Ecommerce platform Pandabuy has apologized after two cybercriminals were spotted hawking personal data belonging to 1.3 million customers.…
Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records.…
Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer The owner of the e-commerce store management system OpenCart has responded with hostility to a security researcher disclosing a vulnerability in the product.…
Really? You didn't bother to patch a 9.8 severity critical flaw? Ecommerce stores using Adobe's open source Magento 2 software are being targeted by an ongoing exploitation campaign based on a critical vulnerability that was patched last year, on February 13, 2022.…
Learn how you can improve your password security and keep your organization's data safe Webinar Believe it or not the word 'password' is still being used as the most common password across all industries, including retail and ecommerce.…
Singapore's safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability A newly implemented e-commerce rating system in the city-state of Singapore has rated Facebook's Marketplace as the least trustworthy e-commerce platform, behind Amazon and its Alibaba-owned Asian analogue Lazada.…