E commerce and its security considerations

Posted by iva on February 15th, 2018

Security issues and threats in an e-commerce environment are varied and can be caused intentionally. Security issues and threats related to an e-commerce environment can be categorized as many  types  controllable, partially controllable, and uncontrollable. Security threats on the Internet include Spoofing, Unauthorized disclosure, Unauthorized action, Data alteration etc. Spoofing is the copying of legitimate webpages by those with criminal intentions to create seemingly legitimate websites for the sole purpose of gathering private information like credit card numbers, social security numbers and so on. In Unauthorized disclosure  When transactions are conducted over the Internet on unsecured sites, hackers can intercept transmissions and gain access to our customer’s sensitive data. Anyone with a grudge against us can alter your site to deny access to customers in Unauthorized action and the other one id the data alteration. Here. Hackers can alter transaction contents as they flow across the internet resulting in mixed, incomplete, or incorrect messages being sent back and forth from our site to your customer and vice versa.