Magento is quite popular among the business community. This can be traced back to its open source origins. Magento was aimed towards easing the process of managing and creating a store. Being open source it uses MySql or MariaDB for data storage and management. On daily basis hear news of Credit card theft scam, Cryptojacking and SEO spam. Magento security audit…
BlackFriday sales have been a huge hit online. There has been a 21.6% year on year growth in buying during blackfriday with sales estimated to be worth $3.34 billion! With the buying going online, there has been an increase in hacks also. Hackers target your website or app with the sole motive of compromising your customers for financial gains. What's…
Magento is a powerful e-commerce platform that has everything your business needs. It’s even touted as the most flexible and capable platform in the market today. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it immune to cyber-attacks that can compromise the growth and stability of your business. As a matter of fact, evidence suggests Magento websites—given the scale of businesses that use it—are…
How to Prevent Magento Malware Injection? Magento, while being one of the most favored e-commerce platforms, has also witnessed a steep rise in malware attacks. E-commerce platforms are a goldmine for malicious actors to harvest lucrative credit card and personal information from online transactions. While Magento owes to its popularity to strict security practices, a timely update of system core and immediate…
Magento is one of the market leaders in the eCommerce, Open-Source platform in today’s times Written in PHP. It is capable of all the essential features needed for a leading eCommerce Store, It's easy to design and develop too. Since it's a popular CMS Security is one of the factors that are to be considered in the long run. Although, Magento…
It takes years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it. ― Stephane Nappo Is your Prestashop, Magneto or OpenCart store secured? Many big e-commerce giants felt similar until their own data and customer personal information like the debit/credit card details, passwords etc. are breached. Generally, we get to know about these issues when our system…
What is Crypto Mining Malware (CoinHive Javascript)? How are you affected? CoinHive is an online service which provides cryptocurrency miners (crypto mining malware) that can be installed on websites using JavaScript. The JavaScript miner runs in the browser of the website visitors and mines coins on the Monero blockchain. It is promoted as an alternative to placing advertising on the website.…
Magento is considered as the best e-commerce platform available today and it has numerous features, plugins, regular updates and a huge community of developers. As the technology and security measures improve, so do the capabilities of the hackers. Hackers usually target e-commerce websites to gain credit card information or just for some kicks. The first step towards security starts with…
Website owners are often bombarded with so much informaiton on web security. Here's top web security experts giving their one most important suggestion for your website's security.
Malware attacks are bad! They bring your business to a stand still and cause a loss money, reputation and even customers. Usually business owners only start caring about malware after they get infected with it. As they say everyone feels secure until they get hacked, and they haven't got hacked until now because a hacker didn't try. Once infected, it…
