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osCommerce shops get hacked

Wednesday, 03 August 2011 12:58

If you are the proud owner of a webshop based on osCommerce you may be lucky - or not.

Why?

Well fast explained: currently over 5 Million webshops are hacked as of today. Massice daily growing figure.

What happpens?

Scriptkiddies and other indivudals so called 'Hacker' are using weak code of osCommerce version 2.2. To be more precise: 3 security holes are used to infect your webshop and and get control over it.

Read more here in this blog by Armorize.

What can be done?

Easiest answer could be: use another, much more modern webshop than osCommerce. If you like to switch or you are in the bad situation that your webshop is already infected, call drop us a note. We will show you what you can do - and what we can do for you.

 

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