IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Tropical Cyclone Yasi

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:57:28 +0000

Tropical Cyclone Yasi is now heading directly through Cairns – due February, Wednesday, 4am. We are unsure of how it is going to develop but due to its intensity, we are having to close the Cairns based Design office until it has passed. We will re-open the office as soon as possible. Post from: IMPORTANT [...]

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Tropical Cyclone Yasi

Network Issues resulting from Brisbane floods

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:07:07 +0000

There appears to be issues in and around Brisbane and the Gold Coast on a few different providers. We have spoken to our network guys and have checked with NextGen and Vocus and it appeas the issues are above these providers as well.

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Network Issues resulting from Brisbane floods

IMPORTANT Data Centre Maintenance – Saturday 3rd April 10pm AEST

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:54:56 +0000

As part of the move to our new Data Centre facility in Brisbane we will be performing regular Redundancy and Fail over testing to ensure that all aspects of our Network and connections to upstream providers are working correctly and that our Fail over procedures in the event of an outage or equipment failure are working correctly.

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IMPORTANT Data Centre Maintenance – Saturday 3rd April 10pm AEST

X-Cart Software Security bulletin 2010-17-03

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:53:54 +0000

During internal audit activities we found minor security issues that make X-Cart potentially vulnerable to attackers who wish to gain access to the application back-end. Qualiteam has released the security update which includes the following improvements. 4.0.x branch: - protection from XSS attacks has been added (for 4.0.0-4.0.19) - protection from SQL injection attacks has [...]

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X-Cart Software Security bulletin 2010-17-03

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