Tag: Online Shopping

Usikker registrering av persondata i mange nettbutikker

[Apologies to my English language readers, as this article mainly concerns encryption in Norwegian online shopping sites, I decided to write it in Norwegian]

Jeg har ved at par tidligere anledninger undersøkt bruken av kryptering av norske nettbutikker, sist i 2013. Konklusjonen begge ganger har vært at kryptering er lite brukt.

I løpet av januar gjennomførte jeg en ny undersøkelse av kryptering i norske nettbutikker. I tillegg til 59 butikker jeg hadde undersøkt tidligere, inkluderte jeg denne gangen 184 nye nettbutikker fra Posten.no‘s liste over nettbutikker, totalt 243 butikker.  Continue reading “Usikker registrering av persondata i mange nettbutikker”

A possible reason why many e-commerce sites do not use encryption?

If you have read my past articles, you may have noticed that I am a little annoyed by the low number of e-commerce sites using HTTPS encryption to protect their customers. While most do use encryption for payments, usually that is because they use the services of a payment processor, and because using encryption for the payment info submission pages is required by the credit card companies. As far as I can tell, very few e-commerce sites use encryption for displaying the shopping cart, collecting customer information about name and address, or the customer login, although I have an impression that larger e-commerce companies are better at this than smaller ones. Continue reading “A possible reason why many e-commerce sites do not use encryption?”