Web App Security: Don’t Let the Code Injection Grinch Steal Holiday Joy

This holiday season more and more e-commerce site operators will be deploying web app security solutions such as content security policies (CSPs) to protect themselves and their users against cyberattacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS), formjac… Continue reading Web App Security: Don’t Let the Code Injection Grinch Steal Holiday Joy

Alternatives to Animated GIFs

We have all been amused by animated GIFs on lots of websites — dancing babies, cute cats, flying birds, funny memes, and countless others. Despite their popularity, animated GIFs can be very heavy and can contribute significantly to page performance issues. Continue reading Alternatives to Animated GIFs

Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier

Holiday shoppers are overcoming worries and restrictions and easily adapting to new shopping norms as the COVID-19 pandemic has invaded our lives and made us overwhelmingly dependent on online and mobile activity. According to an Akamai-commissioned su… Continue reading Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier

Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier

Holiday shoppers are overcoming worries and restrictions and easily adapting to new shopping norms as the COVID-19 pandemic has invaded our lives and made us overwhelmingly dependent on online and mobile activity. According to an Akamai-commissioned survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers conducted between October 31 and November 2, 2020, 73% of shoppers who have started gift hunting have done half to all their shopping online to date. And if they are not finished, 85% of consumers plan to do at least half of the remainder of their holiday shopping online. Continue reading Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier

Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online

Kyklo, a startup that helps wholesale distributors of electrical and automation products launch e-commerce stores, is announcing that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding. The industry may sound a bit arcane, but it’s one that founders Remi Ducrocq (Kyklo’s CEO) and Fabien Legouic (CTO) know from having worked at Schneider Electric. Ducrocq said […] Continue reading Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online

BigBasket data breach – 20 million customer data sold on dark web

By Deeba Ahmed
India’s leading online supermarket BigBasket acknowledged putting sensitive data of more than 20 million users at stake.
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SimilarWeb raises $120M for its AI-based market intelligence platform for sites and apps

Israeli startup SimilarWeb has made a name for itself with an AI-based platform that lets sites and apps track and understand traffic not just on their own sites, but those of its competitors. Now, it’s taking the next step in its growth. The startup has raised $120 million, funding it will use to continue expanding […] Continue reading SimilarWeb raises $120M for its AI-based market intelligence platform for sites and apps

Facebook adds hosting, shopping features, and pricing tiers to WhatsApp Business

Facebook has been making a big play to be a go-to partner for small and medium businesses that use the internet to interface with the wider world, and its messaging platform WhatsApp, with some 50 million businesses and 175 million people messaging them (and more than 2 billion users overall), has been a central part […] Continue reading Facebook adds hosting, shopping features, and pricing tiers to WhatsApp Business

Critical Magento Holes Open Online Shops to Code Execution

Adobe says the two critical flaws (CVE-2020-24407 and CVE-2020-24400) could allow arbitrary code execution as well as read or write access to the database. Continue reading Critical Magento Holes Open Online Shops to Code Execution

DoorDash introduces a new corporate product, DoorDash for Work

Delivery service DoorDash is giving employers a way to feed their remote employees through a new suite of products called DoorDash for Work. There are four main products, starting with DashPass for Work, where employers can fund employee memberships to DashPass, a program that eliminates delivery fees on orders from thousands of restaurants. In fact, DoorDash […] Continue reading DoorDash introduces a new corporate product, DoorDash for Work