Reading Time: 2 minutes Last Friday, President Obama signed an executive order requiring credit and debit cards issued to and on behalf of the Federal Government to conform to the EMV standards currently used in Europe. The standards add so called Chip and PIN technologies to the cards that is dramatically more difficult for hackers to compromise than the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Extended Validation SSL Certificates are the most recent innovation in SSL Certificates. EV SSL certificates combat online threats that erode trust online. They provide a new way for merchants to prove that their site has been verified as an authenticated business. EV SSL Certificates are designed to provide visitors with the green “good to go”…

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Certificate and Browser industry standards are continuously being reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of an ever changing threat environment. Providers have a lot to keep up with, but so do users of SSL certificates. In July 2012, the CA/Browser Forum, the industry standards board for Certificate Authorities and the browsers that use…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Who are znappz? Znappz is a software developer in the UK and Norway that specializes in games and apps for mobile devices. For example , they are currently featuring an iPhone app called “Accounting Deadline” that gives you notice of deadlines and information about rates, taxes and government fees. They operate the web site znappz.com….

Reading Time: 2 minutes Great news from Google this week for SSL users! The leading search engine is adjusting its famous and mysterious ranking algorithm to reward sites that use SSL. This means that users of SSL will not only get a secured connection to protect their communications with customers, they will get higher visibility when potential customers are…

Reading Time: 6 minutes If you have an e-Commerce site you are in crosshairs of hackers. Why? Because you are the goose with the golden eggs they covet most. You handle customer credit card and personal information that they want to steal and exploit. They usually do it by either intercepting the messaging between you customer’s browser and your…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Data breaches that impact customers are costly in many ways. They are costly to cleanup. They are costly in the erosion of their customer’s confidence and business. They can kill e-Commerce. Increasingly, data breaches are costly in legal liabilities. The latest example is a class action suit filed against eBay on behalf of customers whose…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Every time you turn around, it seems there is another high profile data breach in the news that involves the compromise of cardholder data. The Target data breach alone may have compromised the data of more than half of all adult Americans. It has never been more important to focus on being compliant with Payment…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Without SSL and SSL Certificates e-Commerce as we know it would not be possible. All SSL Certificates provide a secure connection between a browser and a server with all messages encrypted with Public Key Encryption (PKI) technology. So, why are there so many product offers at very different prices? Innovative product offerings like wildcard SSL…

Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a right way and a wrong way for an organization to handle a data breach. Unfortunately, they are sometimes the SAME way. The consensus in crisis management is that it is always best to get in front of a bad news story by getting it out quickly so you can frame the story…