#9unit 1online security and payment system

Security threats in e-commerce environment

The landscape of threats facing e-commerce systems.

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Security threats in e-commerce environment

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E-commerce has three key points of vulnerability — the client, the server, and the communications pipeline — and faces many threats including malicious code, PUPs, phishing, hacking, credit card fraud, spoofing, sniffing, insider attacks, and DoS/DDoS attacks.

  • Identify the three key points of vulnerability in e-commerce.
  • List the major categories of security threats to e-commerce.
  • Explain why each vulnerability point matters.
  • Outline the basic landscape of e-commerce security threats.