Web cookies were first introduced to help create shopping carts on eCommerce websites, into which customers can place items to purchase and then continue browsing the website, adding or removing items from the shopping cart, without losing the previously stored information. The use of cookies has since expanded and today embedding them in a web [...]

Merchants need to take into account the risks that are associated with the acceptance of card payments online and develop a strategy to address them, before launching an eCommerce business. When developing such a strategy, your goal should be to ensure that payments are accepted in a way that is fast, secure, reliable and that [...]

There are a number of characteristics that can point to a fraud in an eCommerce transaction. Listed below are 12 such signs, the presence of which should alert merchants operating in a card-not-present environment of the possibility that a fraudulent transaction may be under way. If only one of these signs is present, this may [...]

The eCommerce presents unrivalled possibilities for tapping into markets that are out of the reach of brick-and-mortar types of businesses. Web-based merchants have the world as a market. The other side of the coin is that criminals see the eCommerce as an additional source for gathering sensitive personal information that can be later used for [...]

Businesses that accept payments in card-not-present settings need to implement into their card acceptance procedures for reviewing suspicious transactions a cardholder verification process. The process of verifying the validity of the transaction activity must be cost-effective to justify implementing it in the first place. Merchants that operate mail order, telephone order or eCommerce businesses must [...]