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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.In"PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide" you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Types of attacks


There are different types of security attacks. Here is a very brief explanation of some of the most common ones. Hopefully, this will help to clarify why security is an ongoing and evolving issue and not something that can ever be 100 percent solved out-of-the-box.

Common sense issues

These are often overlooked. Make sure your passwords are impossible to guess; use number sequences that are memorizable to you but unimaginable and meaningless to everyone else. Combine number sequences with a variety of upper and lower case letters. Don't share your passwords with anyone. This applies to anyone who has access to your shop or hosting account.

Brute force

This is when an attacker uses software to repeatedly attempt to gain access to or discover a password by guessing. Clearly, the simplest defense against this is a secure password. A good password is one with upper and lower case characters, apparently random numbers, and words that are not names or can be found in the dictionary...