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Friday, August 31, 2007

Security - an education in online secure sites

Ordering online is definitely risky. In fact, it is riskier than I had been led to believe. It's not as simple as looking for a secure site. Credit card fraud and identity theft are running rampant these days and it is not always easy to tell the source. I recently got a call from American Express due to suspicious activity on my card and it turns out that someone was charging up mostly innocuous online charges that I might have otherwise missed, such as stamps.com.

As a vendor, there are more risks than I'd realized too, but I will get to that shortly.

First let me start with what I have learned as a consumer.

When I first set up my website, I used PayPal to process my orders. That was very secure. However, I lost a lot of ...read more

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