Archive for January, 2010

Further enhancing X-Cart Site Admin security

Via your hosting console you can add an additional layer of security to your X-Cart admin. This extra security will cause a pop-up window to come up when you go to the admin section. In that pop-up you will need to enter a username and password before you even get to the admin area where you would normally enter your X-Cart admin username and password

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PCI Compliance – 12 steps to protecting customer credit card information

Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), otherwise known as PCI DSS compliance, demands all shopping cart owners whom accept credit card payments to adopt strict security policies and procedures, including these 12 steps:

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Removal of credit card information from X-Cart software

Given the nature of the internet and that hacking and security breaches are an every day part of life there are certain things that you need to ensure you do when managing your X-Cart site when it comes to credit cards.

Whether utilising manual credit card processing, or an automated payment gateway option, you need to ensure that you make your cart as secure as possible when handling sensitive data like customer credit card information.

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Use of Payer Authentication – Mastercard Securecode and Verified by Visa

Only in instances where you actually forward customers to the banking environment to make their order payment by credit card can the additional protection of Mastercard Securecode and Verified by Visa be utilised.

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PCI Compliance Recommended Reading List

Heard of PCI compliance but not sure what it is, how it affects your business and the ramifications if you are not compliant? PCI compliance is a cart owners responsibility. Ignorance is no excuse so get educated and learn how to prevent exploitation of your customer credit card information.

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Increase Security on your site – Change your Passwords

We would remind all clients that they need to ensure the security of their website at all times by regularly changing all logins relevant to their site, including:

cPanel passwords (for both web and email hosting consoles)
X-Cart admin password/s

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