Pirating software doesn’t make you a communist, it makes you a thief along with the risks of exposing your commercial and customer data to criminals.
Learn why Firebear Studio extensions have open code, why don’t we use IonCube, and why is it good for you to own the extension code.
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Although Shopware 6 is protected from flooding by default, you can apply different techniques to make your e-commerce website more secure. In this article, we explain what flooding is. After that, you will learn how the system is protected and find out how to save your Shopware 6 website from flooding. Other useful tips on how to work with your e-commerce website are available here: Shopware Cookbook. Continue Reading
In the following article, we share all the information necessary to bail up a hacked Magento website (no matter, it is Magento 1 or Magento 2) and prevent possible inbreaks. Commonly, the most significant concern is that you may not even know that your e-commerce store has been attacked. Therefore, it is necessary to check whether such an episode took place or not. If offenders got claws into your business, you have to clean up an infected Magento site and extinguish the malicious impact. Moreover, it is necessary to take care of further possible intrusions. To help you with that, we discuss how to identify, fix, and protect your Magento installation and encapsulate information about the most prevalent break-in types and ways malefactors turn e-commerce stores to their advantage. Continue Reading
The world of retail banking will never be the same. In 2018, an essential change to the EU legislation called PSD2 took effect so that banks are no longer monopolists on their customers’ account data. What is the Payment Service Directive? How will PSD2 impact e-commerce in general and Magento 2 in particular? How to prepare for the new changes? You will find answers to these and other questions below. Continue Reading
This article describes a bunch of very decent Magento extensions designed to provide some extra security and protection layers as well as safety for admin login procedures. Continue Reading
Last week, Tavis Ormandy from Google’s Project Zero discovered a huge problem in the security of CloudFlare‘s edge servers. He contacted the company and reported that corrupted web pages were returned by some HTTP requests run through the popular hosting provider. Below, we shed light on the problem as well as provide information on how to prevent Magento form the new bottleneck dubbed CloudBleed. Continue Reading
Magento 2 can be compared to a fortress when it comes to security, but there is still a room for improvement. Thus, you can enhance Magento 2 admin security, so malefactors will never still precise information about your ecommerce website and customers. The following post sheds light on vital improvements based on third-party Magento 2 security extensions which add extra protection layers to a default admin processes. If you also think that the default Magento 2 security must be enhanced, you’ve come to the right place.
There is already a post dedicated to Magento security patches in our blog. SUPEE-6482, SUPEE-6285, SUPEE-5994, SUPEE-5344, and others are described here: Magento critical security patches. And since it includes too much information, we’ve decided to create a new one which sheds light on the latest patch – SUPEE-8788. The new security improvement is vital since it fixes lots of vulnerabilities. Although most of them haven’t been utilized in attacks, it’s not the reason to ignore SUPEE-8788. Continue Reading
Recently, we’ve reviewed Extendware Anti-Spam Captcha – a tool designed to free your Magento website from spammers. This time, we’d like to draw your attention to another similar product – Bot Blocker. This Magento extension blocks bad bots and frees up server resources consumed by them. Hence, you get a faster store that exists without spam. Continue Reading
A new Magento malware has been discovered and it is a malicious script by . Unfortunately, a new attack vector is not identified, but we already know that the disease makes Magento websites vulnerable to a code execution issue. Below, we shed light on how to prevent your ecommerce store from Guruincsite Magento disaster.
UPD (21.10.15) SUPEE-6788 will help you solve the Guruincsite issue
