Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘Tis the season for holiday shopping. Economic forecasters anticipate holiday retail sales will reach a new all-time high in 2019, with U.S. spending set to top $725 billion for the first time in history. The economy is robust, consumer confidence is high, and shoppers are eager to explore great deals and special offers that mark the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes In light of recent research which contends that the SHA-1 hashing algorithm could be more vulnerable to attack than was previously thought, both Microsoft and Mozilla have begun discussions to bring forward the date when their browsers will reject SHA-1 based SSL/TLS certificates. Although not yet confirmed, Mozilla is considering rejecting SHA-1 certificates after July…

Reading Time: 2 minutes OpenSSL has recently disclosed a high severity vulnerability that may require you to upgrade your version of OpenSSL. Comodo anticipates this flaw will only affect a small percentage of installations, largely because the bug only affects those that installed the OpenSSL release from June 2015. There are no reports of this bug being exploited in…

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the first time in almost 20 years, Internet trust has a new leader! This month, Comodo surged past perennial chart topper Symantec/Verisign in market share for issuing SSL Certificates. Today, one third of all web sites using SSL have chosen Comodo to protect their critical communication and build trust with customers. At Comodo, we…

Reading Time: 2 minutes SSL is widely used today to secure communication on web pages that send sensitive information to a web server, such as login credentials or financial data. Indeed, it is essential for e-Commerce. Who would give their credit card data if they knew that it could be intercepted by hackers? It has become increasingly apparent that…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Tis the season to be jolly, and to do a lot of holiday shopping! It’s an important time for both the shoppers and the retailers, and is also a very risky time due to the threats of cyber criminals. The day after Thanksgiving in the US has become known as Black Friday. The name has…

Reading Time: 2 minutes You can’t do e-Commerce or exchange personal information without an encrypted connection. You could try, but you won’t be able to accept credit cards and would be a sitting duck for hackers and fraudsters. When looking for an SSL certificate to enable an SSL secured connection, people tend to look at factors such as price,…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Web sites have never been more under attack by hackers and E-commerce sites are a prime target.  Right now,  do you know if your web site is infected with malware? PCI Vulnerability Scanning is designed for Website owners and E-commerce Merchants to secure transactions, in accordance with PCI Standards. PCI standards on their externally facing…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many e-Commerce sites display “Trust Seals”, aka Trust Mark Logos, provided by third parties who have conducted an independent audit of the site or its ownership. The concept did not start with the web era. It is essentially the same as the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval”, which attests that a product has been tested…

Reading Time: 3 minutes When you work with SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) to secure your web site or other types of communication, you may notice reference to another communications protocol TLS, Transport Layer Security. You know that SSL provides a secured, encrypted communication between a client and a server, but what does TLS do? Truth be told, TLS is…