E-commerce Credit Card Swiping

With Black Friday just around the corner and the busy Christmas/Holiday season hot on it’s heels e-commerce sites are getting busier and busier which is all great news and we at Global River love to know that our customers are taking lots of sales and enquires during this time. There is another less welcome side of all this extra traffic though and that means a higher attack rate from sources that wish to either steal or just disrupt this activity.

We are seeing much higher attack rates on our servers during this time and you may have even noticed this as a slowing of the sites occasionally. Rest assured that we are negotiating with our hosting partners to put measures in place to minimise any disruption but these higher attack rates are a fact of life with today’s modern digital infrastructure.

One thing in particular we have been made aware of recently , if you run one of our e-commerce solutions, have been attacks that add extra credit card fields to your checkout. These then send the credit card details over to a separate site set up by the scammers. These attacks can be very sophisticated and very difficult to detect with the malware scanners and other security measures that we employ so one of the very best ways to combat these can be simply to be more vigilant of your own websites ‘normal’ function. A simple check of the buying process once a week can be one of the most important checks that you run to combat against these type of attacks and if this is something that you don’t have time for then we here at Global River will be only to happy to help and run a customised set of checks of you site for you.