Security threats in e-commerce environment
The landscape of threats facing e-commerce systems.
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Three points of vulnerability in an e-commerce transaction
E-commerce transactions are vulnerable at the client, the server, and the communications pipeline.
An e-commerce transaction has three vulnerable points: the client (consumer device), the communications pipeline (the Internet), and the server (merchant site). At each point, different threats can strike — malware on the client, sniffing or man-in-the-middle attacks on communications, and hacking or denial-of-service attacks on the server.
Explanation: An e-commerce transaction has three vulnerable points: the client (consumer device), the communications pipeline (the Internet), and the server (merchant site). At each point, different threats can strike — malware on the client, sniffing or man-in-the-middle attacks on communications, and hacking or denial-of-service attacks on the server.