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Product UpdatesSecurityFoxyCart Forum Security Breach
Summary of the Breach On Tuesday, December 17th, our server that hosts our forum, wiki, and affiliate program was compromised. (Our application envir...
Best PracticesCultureSecurityThe Myths of PCI Compliance: A “PCI Compliant Box”
One of the “perks” of being a PCI Level 1 Service Provider is that we often get asked about becoming PCI compliant by friends and acquaintances. Ofte...
Best PracticesCultureSecurityIn which we talk security
If I told you, “you can protect your business with just ONE minute per week,” you’d do whatever I said, wouldn’t you? Well, I’m going to give you tha...
Best PracticesSecurityThrow off the plague of PCI when choosing a website platform
We invited the E-business Coach, Patrick Pitman, to explore how niche merchants thrive amongst the Internet’s biggest retailers. FoxyCart enables any...
SecurityHow $1,100 in Fraudulent Charges Encouraged Me
I was recently surprised by a “please see attendant” message on the gas pump after swiping my debit card. What the…? I had just used it for lunch the...
SecurityReasons to be Paranoid: Keyboards
Ecommerce, Security, Passwords. This isn’t necessarily related to ecommerce, but it is yet another example of how many attack vectors there are with ...