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• Security Issues
• E-Commerce Threats
Security in Cyberspace
• The field of electronic security focuses on designing
measures that can enforce security policies.
• Security in e-commerce generally employs
procedures such as authentication, ensuring
confidentiality, and the use of cryptography to
communicate over open systems.
•The electronic system that supports
e-commerce is susceptible to abuse and failure in
many ways
Security in Cyberspace
The electronic system that supports e-commerce is
susceptible to following threats:
• Fraud
– Resulting in direct financial loss.
– Funds might be transferred from one account
to another, or financial records might simply
be destroyed.
Business MS114
Electronic
Hacking and Cybervandalism
• Hacker: Individual who intends to gain unauthorized access to
a computer systems
• Cracker: Used to denote hacker with criminal intent (two
terms often used interchangeably)
• Cybervandalism: Intentionally disrupting, defacing or
destroying a Web site