With regular news stories about companies being hacked, database breaches, internet-breaking vulnerabilities and online credit card theft, web users are justifiably anxious about making online purchases for fear that their personal information will be compromised by attackers. But where does legitimate concern end and outright paranoia begin? In this post I will try to dispel some of this anxiety and equip users with knowledge on how to make safe purchases online.

It’s a Big, Scary Web

In a previous two-part series on this blog we detailed the general overview of the web’s ecommerce environment and discussed why some websites are more prone to credit card theft than others.

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It’s not uncommon to see free web hosting providers get abused as part of phishing campaigns. IBM X-Force Exchange, in fact, published three indicators of compromise (IoCs) related to such an incident, namely:

• URL: http[:]//direc7890[.]mypressonline[.]com
• Email address: [email protected][.]com
• IP address: 185[.]176[.]43[.]106

The domain mypressonline[.]com leads to a website that offers a way for users to easily add subdomains related to their projects. Screenshot Lookup led us to that particular finding.

As part of our work to bring transparency to Internet usage and help keep users safe from digital threats, we used a combination of WHOIS, IP, and DNS intelligence sources and found:

• 1,460 subdomains under…

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Managed WordPress hosts offer a hosting service that is optimized for WordPress. Thus promising their users a more seamless experience. However, these convenient services have so far come with a premium price tag. These services are not cheap, and the features are often targeted at larger funded startups or enterprise customers.

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