The local.xml that can found in the app/etc/ folder of your Magento installation. It contains the database connection details to your store and the encryption key used to secure data. If a nefarious individual laid his hands on this, he/she would have everything they could want.
With the results from the upcoming eCommerce survey (soon to be released), I did some investigating and found that 156 out of 8082 Magento sites had publicly accessible app/etc/local.xml....
For a couple of days in August I was privileged enough to spend a couple of days working from Sweet Tooth. It was a fantastic opportunity to swap tips and reflect on how to run a business.
First, a bit of back story. Sweet Tooth develops eCommerce customer loyalty software. It’s available for free for Magento (the most popular ecommerce platform), and it’ll soon be available for Prestashop. They are revolutionising the ecommerce...
Magento 1.7 is at release candidate version one with 10 open issues. We should be expecting the full release shortly to tie in with the annual Imagine Conference.
It’s time for a whirlwind overview of some of the new features in Magento 1.7.
It integrates Zend_Captcha on most customer related forms, e.g. register, login, forgot password, but (somewhat bizarrely) isn’t included on the contact form this time around.
The February 2012 eCommerce survey found 33,632 sites in the Alexa Top 1 Million. The survey visits each site and analyses the HTML document against a set of rules that detect the use of any one of 40 different eCommerce platforms.
The most popular platform was Magento, with 6,795 sites, a 20% share of eCommerce stores found. Magento has seen...