The standard order confirmation email, a staple of ecommerce processes and ongoing marketing campaigns, continues to be a favorite malware delivery method for criminals. One long-lived malicious threat known as ASProx reared its head again as spoofed emails bearing Walmart, Read more
Craigslist said visitors to its site were redirected to other sites on Sunday evening. The cause was due to a hack of one of its domain registrars rather than the classifieds site itself. Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster published a post Read more
For shoppers, it was too good to be true. Walmart has now changed the online component of its price-matching policy to exclude Amazon third-party merchants after rolling out the new policy on Friday, November 14th. Walmart spokesperson John Forrest Ales Read more
It seems one retailer after another finds itself the victim of a data breach due to a hacking incident, and on Monday came the bad news that the U.S. Postal Service had been hacked. For online merchants, the news could Read more
When eBay suffered a data breach earlier this year, lawmakers demanded answers. Members of the Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus have been in consultation with eBay officials, seeking responses to a litany of questions about the firm’s privacy and security protections Read more
President Obama on Friday unveiled a series of steps aimed at improving the security of credit- and debit-card payments, including a pledge to shift government transactions over to the PIN and chip system and commitments from major retailers and credit Read more
Thanks to a new security vulnerability widely publicized last week, eBay announced it would restrict access to its site through older versions of web browsers. That could cause problems for some shoppers and sellers. That’s particularly unwelcome news following the Read more
eBay has investigated a vulnerability on its UK marketplace and said that despite the risks, it won’t make any changes. eBay’s Vice President of Global Managed Marketplace took to the eBay UK announcement board to make public its decision. Lynda Read more
Criminals continued to wreak havoc on retailers in ecommerce and mobile channels, causing a 10 percent rise in revenue lost to fraudsters year over year. The 2014 LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud study found merchants lost 0.68 percent of revenue to fraud Read more
Whether it is a fair accusation or not, shoppers don’t always see the perpetrator of online crimes as the one to blame the most for theft. Many consider the retailer almost equally at fault when cybercrime rears its head. The Read more
