those online shopping carts,esp FREE ones,are they secure?is there a vulnerability to get the customers' banking details compromised?more so with free ones or jjust the same?
one more thing,is the shopping cart offered by Mal'sa safe thing to put on my blog?

Make sure when you want to buy, there is https in the link. If there are no https, it is not safe and most likely not trust worthy.

This post has been edited by Ramjade: Jun 26 2011, 10:39 AM

HTTPS is a serious issue because if there is not HTTPS, your data transmitted will not be encrypted. Also, you should check the shopping cart's SSL Certificate (a digitial certificate that forms HTTPS) whether it is valid and the authority that issued them is also valid. This is because one of the issuer Comodo just got breached 2 months back and hundreds of fake SSL certificate being issued. Hence, HTTPS also need to see the validity. Microsoft already updated the certificate status, so if you view those certs, it should appear revoked or invalid.

Practice safe browsing, with the correct internet connection (i.e. it's your fault if someone manages to view your traffic over wifi when you're connected to unencrypted network)

Shopping carts provide a certain level of security. However, with the advent of attack vectors, anything is possible.

It all boils down to how safe you wanna play it. But if the site is HTTPS, no keylogger/trojan on your PC, using personal home internet, it should be fine most of the time.

^ That's the user's side of concern.

If you're worrying about the server side stuff and your reputation then choose a more stable and widely use one (Zen cart? IDK)

... and yeah, if your web app is vulnerable, your whole DB can be compromised.

Yah, there are many types of Web Application Vulnerabilities around. If your site is hit with SQL injection, it can be as bad as entire DB take over. Gotta put a very high concern into web vulnerabilities.