Back in October of last year we saw McAfee acquire ScanAlert and it’s famed security scanning division Hackersafe. Now it seems that McAfee have literally swallowed the brand name and just swapped the old Hackersafe logo with their own new McAfee trust seal!

Naturally they have suggested it out preformed the  Hackersafe site seal - despite Hackersafe saying it was the most successful design in increasing conversion of their hundreds of design tests. I find this questionable to say the least but a brave move by McAfee to swap over like that.

Shopperguards market will be slightly different to begin with to McAfee’s in that we won’t be offering vulnerability scanning as the majority of small to medium online businesses use 3rd party payment processors anyway. This then makes the 3rd party processor responsible for the safety of the customers credit card details which is of course the most vulnerable information to misuse. It is also a near impossible task to guarantee that a website/server is hackersafe; just take a look at this article for example.

In fact if I remember rightly in Hackersafe’s terms and conditions it stated that they do not guarantee a server to be safe from hackers!

On a positive note Shopperguard is coming along nicely and we have an exciting and unique twist to our 3rd party certification system that we think you will love.

Look out for more news coming very soon!

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