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Creating Secure Web Forms: What You Need to Know

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023

Creating secure web forms starts with creating a secure website. This process is more complex than creating web pages and adding an SSL Certificate. A certificate is a solid first step, but it only goes so far as to protect whatever sensitive data necessitates security in the first place.

Naive attempts at security can ultimately make the data less secure and more likely to be compromised by creating an appetizing target for the unscrupulous.

So, what do you do beyond hiring a developer with significant security expertise? Start with this article. Its purpose is to shed light on many of the most significant factors in creating secure web forms and how to address them. At a minimum, reading this article will help you intelligently discuss website security with the developers you hire.

person filling out a secure web form on a laptop

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Tags: cross site scripting, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle, pgp, phishing, s/mime, secure form, secureform, ssl, ssl certificate, trust, web security, website security
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, LuxSci Library: Web Design and Programming, Popular Posts, Secure Form
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Trust Seals & Their Impact on Sales: Things You Should Know

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

With visually appealing trust seals on your website, you can expect to get more leads and improve sales.

Have you ever noticed a logo on an e-commerce site that is screaming to tell that their payment system will not compromise your credit card information? Well, this is an example of a variety of trust-building tools called trust seals. The trust seals appear in a site in various forms such as a logo, icon or badge. They may be placed in the header, near a form, and in the footer or navigation menu.

Some common examples of trust seals are Luxsci’s HIPAA certification seal, Better Business Bureau (BBB), McAfee, TrustedShops, SiteLock, GeoTrust, Thawte, Comodo, PayPal, Visa, Google, Verisign, TRUSTe seals and Shopify.

A graduation certificate from MIT or Oxford will most probably land you up on a high-paying job. Right? (But then after, your performance will decide how long the employer will retain you.) This is similar to what trust seals do to your business.

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Tags: hipaa, seal, trust, trustmark
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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How Does Secure Socket Layer (SSL or TLS) Work?

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

The Secure Socket Layer, SSL for short, is a protocol by which enables services that communicate over the Internet to do so securely.

SSL has recently been replaced by TLS (Transport Layer Security).  TLS is newer and more secure than SSL (See TLS vs SSL: What is the difference?); however, from a lay-person’s perspective of “how does it work,” they are functionally the same.  We use the term “SSL” to refer to both TLS and SSL in this article for simplicity.

Before we discuss how SSL works and what kinds of security it provides, let us first see what happens without SSL.

Life on the Internet without SSL

This is, for example, what happens when you go to any web page whose address begins with “http://” (and not “https://”).

Let us compare communications on the Internet and communications between people over the telephone. Without SSL, your computer-to-computer communications suffer from the same security problems from which your telephone communications suffer:

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Tags: ciphers, decrypt, eavesdropping, encrypt, key length, private key, public key cryptography, secure port, secure socket layer, ssl, SSL in action, symmetric cryptography, Thawte, tls, trust
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email, Popular Posts
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Privacy and Security Policies Taken Seriously — How LuxSci Actively Protects Your Accounts

Friday, February 15th, 2013

LuxSci is a small company and our staff are well trained and vigilant, watching for social engineering and other attacks on your accounts and data.  We have very strict privacy policies and internal security policies designed to ensure that your data remains confidential and that nothing unauthorized happens to your accounts.

This may sound like normal business, but it really isn’t.  We take extra care to protect you. 

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Tags: access, confidential, hipaa, privacy, security, trust
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