Like what the title says: the security of shopping carts is always a major issue, it was before, it is now, and it will always be. If youre a small business trying to break into a fairly large and competitive market, shopping cart applications integrated to your website would be a great investment. But several issues need to be addressed and probably one of the more significant one is the issue of security.
Lets begin with the concept of shopping carts. Shopping carts are online applications where you can make purchases by means of using your credit card or any electronic payment services to pay for your orders. If you have an online store, you will need a reliable host where to place your files and where your clients and potential customers will access them from. You also need a shopping cart whose interface is easy and functional.
A shopping cart typically functions with having a check out, generates the total purchase, compute for the shipping costs, and records the needed personal information. The security aspect of the shopping cart lies on the Secured Socket Layer certificate or the SSL which basically handles the security of the personal information entered...