Securing Electronic Retailing Sites And Transactions
SECURING ELECTRONIC RETAILING SITES AND TRANSACTIONS
Attacks earlier in the year on major e-commerce sites, including E*Trade; Amazon.com, the leading e-tailer; eBay, the online auction house; CNN, the news service; Yahoo!; Buy.com; and Zdnet, a technology news and information web site, have heightened the awareness of securing e-commerce sites (“E-Commerce Sites,” 2000, p.106). This is just the first example of a rampant problem that has cost e-tailing companies millions of dollars in losses.
THE PROBLEM
Hackers, using a denial of service (DoS) technique, caused the aforementioned e-tailers to temporarily shut down. By repeatedly loading hundreds of web pages to the companies’ servers from computers on the Internet, the hackers flooded the servers of the e-tailers. These attacks ultimately crashed the company’s server or denied access to normal users (“E-Commerce Sites,” 2000, p.106). These flood attacks are relatively easy to carry out with software such as......
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