Ecommerce Industry News
eBay is taking the unprecedented step of allowing sellers to cancel auction transactions for an 11-day period, a move related to the recent hacking of its customer database. However, if buyers didn’t use PayPal to pay for […]
eBay has reached out to third-party developers after learning about a security breach in which criminals accessed eBay’s user database. eBay revealed the hacking incident to the public on Wednesday, May 21st. With eBay requesting […]
EcommerceBytes called on Zulfikar Ramzan, Chief Technology Officer of Elastica, to provide some context around eBay’s security breach. In Part 1, he talked about what’s going on at eBay right now based on his experience working […]
Cyber attackers compromised a small number of employee log-in credentials, allowing unauthorized access to eBay’s corporate network. The attackers gained access to users’ encrypted passwords and sensitive information, the type that could be used in […]
Webmasters and security experts must deal with yet another vulnerability affecting a popular open-source software. Named Covert Redirect, it affects authentication software OpenID and authorization software OAuth, making visitors to websites vulnerable to phishing attacks […]
An effective and virtually invisible method of redirecting website viewers from a legitimate page to a page crafted for criminal purposes has eBay UK visitors at risk, according to UK security firm Netcraft. The attacks […]
Fraudulent transactions are a big problem for retailers, and a new company is so confident in its ability to eliminate ecommerce fraud, it makes a guarantee to merchant customers that protects them against chargebacks. And […]
Counterfeiting plagues retailers and flourishes online where it’s easy to set up shop, but the publicity generated by fraudsters hurt legitimate business. Case in point, Forbes magazine warned shoppers on Thursday to think twice before […]
eBay, Etsy, PayPal, GoDaddy and others had advice for online merchants who are worried about the Heartbleed bug that was made public this week. A bug in a system used by many ecommerce sites that […]
When the people in charge of keeping websites secure and keeping sensitive data private are running scared, you know it’s time to worry. A vulnerability called the Heartbleed Bug was discovered recently, and, one of […]