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Using EV Certificates OverStock.com Sees Less Shopping Cart Abandonment

2008-02-14 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Verisign) Overstock.com deployed the VeriSign Secured Seal and VeriSign Extended Validation SSL Certificates to further enhance customers' confidence when transacting on its Web site. As a result of the enhancement, site visitors with browsers that support the new certificate now abandon their shopping cart 8.6% less than other site...
 
Tags: site visitors, verisign, overstock, web site, enhance customers, validation ssl, cart, support, seal
 
 
 
 
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Hype Alert: Internet Shopping Carts Are Secure

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2008-09-26 15:00:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
...Carts are Secure OMG...really To be fair, I realize the author is speaking from the eCommerce perspective, rather than that of an information security practitioner, but here's where the trouble begins Shopping cart service providers have developed secure ecommerce shopping cart solutions for any business owner looking to enhance their current...
 
Tags: ecommerce, multiple ecommerce platforms, ecommerce sdl, ecommerce perspective, pci, pci dss, cart solutions, cart, ecommerce security
 
 
 
 
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McAfee Partner isn't McAfee Secure either

2008-05-20 21:04:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...cart that is far from Here's an IFRAME Here's the cookie As well we know, coughing up the cookie counts as a really bad thing for any shopping cart, let alone an SSL protected shopping cart that happens to be a McAfee Partner and authorized distributor of McAfee Software. But lest we forget, McAfee doesn't count XSS as concerning Here's the...
 
Tags: mcafee, mcafee secure, mcafee partner, secure, mcafee software, verisign 128-bit ssl, bad, bad business practices, ssl
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Using FasterFox Prefetching

2008-01-03 16:18:15 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...cart or anything else, you run into some pretty serious problems. Think CSRF. So yes, this apparently can also be used for phishing in FasterFox. I havent tested Opera yet. But either way, its a very cool example of why pre-fetching can be nasty
 
Tags: fasterfox, firefox prefetches, trick fasterfox-users, http-auth dialog pops, link, http-auth dialog immediately, firefox, email, people
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cart into it on a bet El Al, of course, has double doors. But since the cost is between $5K and $10K per aircraft, the airline industry has fought the measure in the U.S The article also talks about how poor the screeners actually are, but I've covered all that already
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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Green IT The Cart and the Horse

2008-05-23 15:06:03 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
We asked government IT folks at this years FOSE show how important Green IT was to their agencies. The results 73% said Green IT was important 16% said it wasnt 9% admitted they didnt know what the agencys policy was The follow up question (and the responses) was the kicker though Only 13% had tools/solutions for Green IT in place An additional...
 
Tags: people, power, annual power savings, products, partner products, energypower management features, environment, personal perspective, lip service
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...cart before the horse in terms of robust internal implementation Mike Ter Louw, Prithvi Bisht and V.N. Venkatakrishnan. Analysis of Hypertext Markup Isolation Techniques for XSS Prevention My favorite presentation of the day was this one by Mike Ter Louw. Mike talked all about the multiple ideas circulating out there related to content...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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What Are You Managing Towards? (And On Disproving Risk Management)

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2008-06-03 14:41:11 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...cart 5.) Using Risk or Risk Management Which brings us to my favorite, using risk (as defined as the probable frequency & probable magnitude of loss event(s)) as a means to manage. Now many industry veterans will tell you how jaded we all are on the term Risk Management. And we have every right to be, as Risk Management has been horribly...
 
Tags: management, risk management, term risk management, management focuses, management approach, risk management process, patch management, cost management, upper management
 
 
 
 
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Green IT The Cart and the Horse

2008-05-23 15:06:03 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
We asked government IT folks at this years FOSE show how important Green IT was to their agencies. The results 73% said Green IT was important 16% said it wasnt 9% admitted they didnt know what the agencys policy was The follow up question (and the responses) was the kicker though Only 13% had tools/solutions for Green IT in place An additional...
 
Tags: people, power, annual power savings, products, partner products, energypower management features, environment, personal perspective, lip service
 
 
 
 
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