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Web skimming attacks, such as those carried out by Magecart, made headlines in 2019 as major online businesses publicly disclosed attacks. While web skimming attacks aim to steal all types of sensitive personal data, such as social security numbers, email addresses, and passwords, Magecart attackers almost exclusively target websites with the aim of stealing credit card numbers. 

California’s privacy law went into effect at the start of 2020 bringing with it a number of regulations affecting how the data of the state’s residents must be managed. The law, which was passed in June of 2018, defines rules targeted at consumer data, and taking inspiration from Europe's GDPR, seeks to ensure that organizations are putting procedures in place to protect the personal information of their customers.

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, once broke into the computer of Tsutomu Shimomura on Christmas Day — Tsutomu was a computer researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and was on a crusade to help capture the elusive Mr. Mitnick.

If you have an online business presence, then this will come as no surprise: bots are bad for business. In fact, 89 percent of all businesses have suffered some form of bot attack. And the current generation of bots are so highly sophisticated and skilled at evading bot detection that it has become difficult to distinguish them from genuine human traffic on a website. 

Salesforce Commerce Cloud, also known as Demandware, is used by some of the worlds largest brands for marketing, customer interaction, and to process online shopping transactions. Given the importance of the platform, and the sensitivity of the data it handles, it is a popular target for criminals, such as Magecart groups.

An unfortunate truth of doing business online today — attackers will try to break into your web apps. It’s only a matter of time. In fact, according to research, a new online attack occurs every 39 seconds. Hardly a week goes by without another organization making headlines with the disclosure of a data breach affecting thousands, sometimes millions, of people across the globe. 

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Ever wonder who can see the information you enter on a website? Is it just the website or can other companies see it, such as the provider of the live chat on the site, Facebook or Google, or even a hacker? It’s time to think about it — and the answer will surprise you.