Important changes regarding credit card data storage. Due to the ever changing PCI landscape and increasingly stringent PCI rules and regulations, moving forward StoreSecured will no longer store full credit card numbers. Storing this information causes increased potential risk and PCI burden for StoreSecured and all our merchants. Effective 9/1/2016 ONLY the last 4 digits […]
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===================================================== **Merchant Action Requested for Custom Domain Names** ===================================================== If your store uses a custom domain name, for instance www.mystore.com the following instructions apply to you. If your store is only available at a subdomain, for instance, mystore.storesecured.com or mystore.easystorecreator.com the below information does NOT apply. ===================================================== In order to take full advantage of the
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Ho Ho, Merry Christmas, Santa has come early this year. Just in time for the busy holiday shopping season we have negotiated a new deal with our hosting provider to offer additional bandwidth for all of our merchants. The new plan limits will take effect for the November billing cycle which is billed at the
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The login change mentioned previously has now been implemented. All customers can now login using either their email or their old user name. No changes or settings are required for individual stores. What exactly has changed? Customers will no longer be asked to create a username when creating a new account, the email address will
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Effective Saturday August 3rd evening all stores will be switched to a log in method based on email address INSTEAD of user name. To prevent confusion or problems, all existing customers will be able to log in using EITHER a user name OR email address. New customers will no longer be asked to choose
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Blog Summary Changes The blog summary handling has been modified to include a separate summary field. Merchants can now define a special blog summary which will be shown on the main blog page instead of the full blog post. This replaces the previous handling where we were automatically cutting down the full blog post to
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Recently we have been visited by spammers who were able to send spam through a few of our merchants email accounts. The email accounts which were compromised had easy to guess simple passwords. These attacks have affected our reputation as an email provider which in turn affects the deliverability of messages sent from our server.
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Per our previous blog post regarding the important FTP changes, if your FTP password does not meet the password strength requirements your FTP access been disabled. If your FTP account was disabled it can be re-enabled by updating your FTP password from My Account–>Change FTP Password and then enabling FTP from General–>FTP. If you do
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The SFTP/SSH method of securely connecting to FTP described in our previous blog post is now available for use. If you prefer to use this method of connction instead of FTPS you may connect using port 22. The SFTP/SSH method of uploading files is generally slower then FTPS and should be used only if you cannot
The following blog post applies to users who are receiving a Connection Timeout and/or Connection Refused message when trying to connect to FTP using implicit TLS security via port 990. The error messages above indicate that your connection is being blocked by a router or computer firewall. Please note that in order to connect you
