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5 Ways to Protect Your Ecommerce Business

CyberSecurity Insiders

This portrays a grim picture for ecommerce businesses — filled with data breaches and irate customers. As per our research, here are five tried-and-tested techniques to protect your ecommerce digital business from dangerous online frauds. eCommerce fraud prevention tools process information from clients and servers in real time.

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Website Backup: The Added Security Layer All Businesses Need

SiteLock

You can defend your site from the top cybercriminals, have the best hosting platform, and secure your platform with a strong password, but none of this is relevant if you aren’t performing website backups on a consistent basis. It’s essential for businesses to backup sites regardless if you are a small or large business.

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One in nine online stores are leaking your data, says study

Malwarebytes

eCommerce security company Sansec has revealed it's found a number of online stores accidentally leaking highly sensitive data. In a post , the researchers said: "We have observed automated attacks against online stores, where thousands of possible backup names are tried over the course of multiple weeks. Change all passwords.

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Back That Word Up! Creating a Backup Plan for Your WordPress Website

SiteLock

One of the things we strongly recommend is having a good backup process in place. Without a backup of your site, you can potentially lose thousands of hours of your own content, and your users’ content, in a single moment. Having a current backup, ready to restore when you need it, is like an insurance plan for your business.

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How to Protect WordPress Sites from Exploitation

SecureWorld News

However, users must be mindful and methodical when setting up, for example, an eCommerce site in WordPress; it's wise to look beyond the real-world SEO benefits and design flexibility and consider factors like data integrity and security. Schedule daily backups to create multiple restore points.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 229 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Magecart hackers compromise another 80 eCommerce sites. Ransomware attack hits DDS Safe backup service used by hundreds of dental offices. FIN6 recently expanded operations to target eCommerce sites. White hat hacker demonstrated how to hack a million Instagram accounts.

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Why Would Someone Hack My Website?

SiteLock

Luckily Howard kept frequent backups of the church’s website. Website attacks can destroy site content, so backups are crucial to recovering damage. Julia’s eCommerce Site Goes Down In Style. In addition to a WAF, Julia should use a website scanner for her eCommerce site to detect any vulnerabilities hackers can exploit.

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