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Photo: Meet Magento 2016 – Hanoi Vietnam On August 22, 2015, Nexcess participated and sponsored Meet Magento Vietnam in Hanoi. We were honored to participate in Asia’s first-ever Meet Magento event. Meet Magento Vietnam (MM15VN) played host to more than 500 community partners, local merchants, and solution partners from across the Asia-Pacific. The day-long conference […]

Passwords alone are not a good authentication mechanism. Too many things can go wrong with passwords for eCommerce retailers to entirely trust them. Users often choose weak passwords or accidentally allow them to fall into the hands of malicious individuals. Particularly in the eCommerce world, where sensitive data, money, and a business’s reputation are on […]

Magento has just released patch SUPEE-6482, which addresses four different vulnerabilities affecting Magento Community and Enterprise editions. We strongly advise all Magento store administrators to update to the latest version to address these vulnerabilities (1.9.2.1 for Community or 1.14.2.1 for Enterprise). Those that do not want to update to the most current version of Magento […]

In the wake of a number of serious vulnerabilities — including the critical ShopLift vulnerability — Magento announced in May that it would be introducing the Magento Alert Registry to keep eCommerce retailers up-to-date about potential security problems. You can now sign up here. “We are committed to platform security and are taking proactive steps intended to […]

Magento has made available a new patch bundle that addresses several serious security vulnerabilities. Magento CE & EE users should update immediately to ensure that their eCommerce store and its users are not put at risk. Among the vulnerabilities addressed are the potential leaking of customer information and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. The patch bundle — […]

From time to time, someone publishes a book about Magento that provides worthwhile advice for both for expert and inexperienced developers. Alessandro Ronchi recently published Magento Best Practices Handbook, an eBook providing tips and strategies understandable to anyone that already understands the fundamentals of Magento development. At 115 pages, the handbook is not long, but […]

The Internet Retail Conference and Exhibition is the world’s largest gathering of retailers, and we’ll be there in force to talk to eCommerce store owners, Magento professionals, and anyone else who wants to chat about building performance-optimized Magento stores. With an expected attendance of 10,000 and exhibitions from everyone who’s anyone in the eCommerce world, […]

Another Magento Imagine has come and gone, but the excitement surrounding Magento 2 will last all year. We were honored to have the opportunity to once again be a presenting sponsor at the greatest eCommerce conference around. The entire Nexcess team was in esteemed company among so many talented and knowledgeable members of the Magento community in Las […]

A patch has been released to fix a remote code execution vulnerability in both Magento Enterprise and Community Editions. In February, Check Point researchers announced that they released details of the critical RCE (remote code execution) vulnerability in the Magento platform. Checkpoint originally found this exploit back in February and contacted Magento privately regarding the […]

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