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Please be advised Pegboard support will be running at a reduced level over the Christmas period. The amended support level is as follows: from 20th of December to 2nd of January – ONLY critical support available via the email ticketing system. Please ensure you plan around these times.

The support team would like to thank you for your support and wish you all the best for the festive season and we are looking forward to supporting you in...

The end is near for unsecure sites on browsers. Warnings signs are already appearing across all browsers when a web page is loaded over an insecure connection (HTTP), letting visitors know that if you enter sensitive information, it could be stolen by eavesdroppers and attackers.

Chrome announced that July 2018 was the final warning notice to secure site content (HTTPS) otherwise users will be penalised in their search engine ranking. Firefox has been the first to block websites...

What is TLS?

TLS stands for “Transport Layer Security.” It is a protocol that provides privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. It’s the most widely deployed security protocol used today, and is used for web browsers and other applications that require data to be securely exchanged over a network. TLS ensures that an endpoint connected to is actually the intended endpoint through encryption and endpoint identity verification. The versions of TLS, to date, are TLS...

Starting from Jan 2017 browsers will display a lock icon with red strike-through red strike through icon in the address bar when you load a page with a login that does not have a secure connection. This is to inform you that if you enter your password it could be stolen by eavesdroppers and attackers. What can I do to secure the login pages?

You need to purchase and install a SSL certificate on your Pegboard website to secure all pages, including login pages.

Please register to...

MasterCard Payment Gateway Services is the technology provider for ANZ’s, Commonwealth Bank and Bank of Bendigo's has advised us that the MD5 security algorithms will not be accepted after 30 November 2016. Merchants using the MD5 security algorithm will need to upgrade to SHA256 security algorithms by 30 November 2016. If your website is using one of the following affected payment gateway's please contact Pegboard support immediately to arrange an upgrade to use the SHA256 security...

AUSPOST plan to decommission the old URL for the Postage Assessment Calculator (PAC) postage method by the end of 2016. AUSTPOST has migrated to the PAC API to a new host URL: https://digitalapi.auspost.com.au

AUSPOST will decommission the old PAC API URL: https://auspost.com.au/api To prevent this from affecting your Pegboard ODP website please update to the latest version (6.1.5.94+ or 6.5.1610+) of the Pegboard application via the manager. The update will automatically...

With the release of Pegboard 6.5 comes a myriad of changes affecting various areas across the Pegboard system. Please find details regarding these changes within the links below. Here are the various resources available surrounding the release of the new Pegboard version 6.5.. Pegboard 6.5 Feature List Pegboard 6.5 Minimum Hosting Requirements Pegboard 6.5 Potential Impacts Pegboard 6.5 Reference Guide

Clients utilizing the SecurePay payment gateway may have received an email with the following content:

Dear Customer, Due to identified vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 3.0 encryption protocol, SecurePay will be removing support of this protocol across all APIs and websites. Although the identified vulnerability is difficult to exploit, to protect users we will be disabling SSL 3.0. What is the impact of this change? Once SecurePay disables SSL 3.0 encryption...

Pegboard is proud to present a new way of targeting content on web platforms using automatically calculated physical location information.

In an effort to improve Pegboard's ability to display relevant content we have implemented a number of new mechanisms that enable a designer to display or remove content based on rules relating to the location of the user in question. These new capabilities allow Pegboard to: Display products available only to certain regions Intelligently...

Pegboard has been notified that SecurePay is performing emergency maintenance activities in preparation for the Christmas and New Year peak transaction processing period.

When:

Sunday 07/12/2014 - 01:00am to 04:00am (AEDT)

Wednesday 10/12/2014 - 01:00am to 04:00am (AEDT)

Impact:

Transaction processing, hosted services and logins may be intermittently unavailable during the maintenance windows.

Customers attempting payment during this time may receive a declined...