Web Site Secure Enough to Take Credit Card Orders?
With all of the WYSIWYG HTML editors (like Microsoft’s FrontPage) almost anyone can publish a web site. This is good, if the web site is only going to be used as a hobby/personal site or as a business advertisement site. Anything more extensive than a static web site should be left to a professional or should be thoroughly researched. Credit card fraud and stolen credit card numbers are at an all-time record high. An e-commerce site must NOT be developed by a webmaster who doesn’t fully understand internet security issues. Too often the hobbyist web master will develop an e-commerce web site without the knowledge needed to make it secure. What’s worse is that banks, who approve web sites for online credit card acceptance, are inadvertently allowing unsafe web sites to pass. This is putting online consumers in an unfair (and unsafe!) situation. Just because a web site advertises that it is secure, doesn’t necessarily make it so. There are very few web site owners that would intentionall
