"Ecommerce News Around the Web" is our weekly review of articles, blog posts and other news items that could interest ecommerce merchants.

Ecommerce SSL is Broken, Says Conference Founder - The Inquirer

Black Hat 2010 conference founder Jeff Moss is adamant that commerce's secure socket layer (SSL) is broken. "Thirteen years down the line since the first conference and we're still not able to conduct business online," he said. Others disagree, saying there is still considerable usefulness for SSL.

The Reason Customer's Don't Pay Online: It's a Pain - Fortune Magazine

Purchasing on the web is not as easy as one would think, given that it is 2010. Customers still run into many roadblocks using their credit cards to buy online, sugge...