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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. 

Macy’s is the latest company to fall victim to the attack trend of web skimming — breaking into web apps to insert virtual skimmers into a websites’ JavaScript that steal sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card numbers, and social security numbers. 

The holiday season is almost upon us, marking one of the busiest times of the year for online sales. While businesses and consumers alike are preparing for the festivities, there’s another group making their own holiday preparations — cybercriminals. 

With Black Friday looming and the opening of the holiday shopping season at our doorstep, U.S. department store chain Macy’s announced earlier this week that some of its customers’ online payment information was skimmed in another Magecart web skimming attack. 

Like most kids, my son has the Fortnite bug and is immersed in the incredibly popular platform game from Epic Games. Fortnite has been an immensely successful product, becoming the most revenue-driving game in history — Epic has made close to $4 billion from the game already. Its success has been largely driven by in-app purchases of everything from character clothing to accessories and add-ons.