Further enhancing X-Cart Site Admin security

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:18:41 +0000

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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Further enhancing X-Cart Site Admin security

PCI Compliance – 12 steps to protecting customer credit card information

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:55:44 +0000

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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PCI Compliance – 12 steps to protecting customer credit card information

Removal of credit card information from X-Cart software

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:49:21 +0000

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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Removal of credit card information from X-Cart software

Use of Payer Authentication – Mastercard Securecode and Verified by Visa

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:47:47 +0000

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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Use of Payer Authentication – Mastercard Securecode and Verified by Visa

PCI Compliance Recommended Reading List

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:30:59 +0000

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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PCI Compliance Recommended Reading List

Increase Security on your site – Change your Passwords

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:15:26 +0000

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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Increase Security on your site – Change your Passwords

Database Optimisation

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:57:53 +0000

Your X-Cart database size can vary greatly depending on what data is stored within it. If you feel your database may perhaps be a little on the large size, or if you simply want to ensure that it is fully optimised for best performance, we wanted to remind you about the tools available within your X-Cart admin to assist with database and site optimisation.

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Database Optimisation

Deleting Mail From The Email Server: Using MacMail

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:34:00 +0000

There are 2 simple steps to remove the mail off the server, using MacMail.

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Deleting Mail From The Email Server: Using MacMail

Deleting Mail from the Email Server: Using a Webmail client

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:17:03 +0000

Just X-Cart Australia offer 3 different webmail email clients for managing your mail. Below are the instructions for each one with regards to successfully permanently deleting email off the server. If you are exclusively relying on webmail for your email in order to avoid exceeding your mailbox quota and thus having your email bounce, we strongly recommend you correctly configuring webmail with regards to deletion of email.

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Deleting Mail from the Email Server: Using a Webmail client

Deleting Mail from the Email Server: Using your local email client

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:14:59 +0000

You can avoid storing mail permanently on the server, thus resulting eventually in exceeding your mailbox quota for your email account, by setting up your local email client correctly.

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Deleting Mail from the Email Server: Using your local email client