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Social media is not merely about being social, social media is a powerful tool that should be leveraged in an effort to promote your business and services online, as well as connect with your customers in an informal way. Utilizing this channel can increasing sales by way of reaching a vast audience of existing as well as potential customers. Aside from satisfying the desires of today's social oriented consumer-- Leveraging social media has proven to increase sales and have a positive impact on KPI's (key performance indicators) including, quota attainment, renewal rate and forecast accuracy.

A new self-healing malware has been discovered by Dutch malware experts. This malware targets online stores running on the Magento platform. It starts execution whenever a user places a new order and can self-heal using code hidden in the website's database. Though this is not the first time a malware is hiding code in the database of the website, is certainly the First Magento malware that uses SQL stored procedures.

Magento has recently released some product and security updates. These new versions provide a range of improvements, including a fix for the recently discovered Zend Framework 1 security vulnerability and quality updates to catalog, payments, and sales modules in Magento 2.

Magento is a widely used open source eCommerce software. A Magento store is also prone to be a target of malicious activities by malware and hackers. And when transacting online, using credit cards or other mode of payment, security is of utmost importance. Even though Magento gets patched for security reasons on a regular basis, below is the detailed list of best practices which can be applied on Magento to mitigate the vulnerabilities.