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P3- Explain the potential risks to an organisation of committing to an E-commerce system
What is hacking?
Hacking is where an illegal person uses a network, internet or modem connection to gain
access past security passwords or other security to see data stored on another computer
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How could hacking be a threat to your retailer’s e-commerce website?
E-commerce has been positive development for many people as it made shopping easier
and more suitable as well as provided an income for others greatest problem natural to
E-commerce is the fact that the buyers and sellers don’t know one another
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Most clear is the scam side of e-commerce
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Hiding behind a computer screen people from knowing right and wrong
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Buyers
use fake or stolen credit cards and online payment accounts or they outright lie about
delivery
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This is turn
makes it costly for sellers, as they are faced with the reality that now they have lost both
their inventory and money
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They can use your data by
using your identification as your name and age or they can sell your identification to
gangsters
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The
most common antivirus drivers include auto-update features and functions that can enables
the program to download profiles of new viruses so that it can check for new viruses as soon
as they are discovered
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A virus can range in severity some may cause only slightly
irritating things while others can damage your hardware, software or files
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Virus can damage organisation computers by doing shutdown computers or slowing down
the network or installing software itself to protect your organisation you have to download
anti-virus to defend against to virus
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The Trojan horse a first look will appear to be useful software but it will actually do
damage when installed on your computer
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When a Trojan is activated on organisation computers the outcome can vary
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Trojan can damage retailer’s computer by
deleting files and destroying information on retailer’s computers
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What is a worm? How can a worm damage your retailer’s computer system?
A worm is like to a virus by design and is considered to be a sub-class of virus
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It has ability to travel without any human
instruction
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Which allows it travel unaided
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So rather than retailer’s computers sending
out a single worm
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For example would be for a worm to send a copy of itself to everyone
listed in your e-mail address book
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What type of data is held on a web server and how can a virus act as a threat to your
retailer’s data?
There will be so much data stored on a web server for example customer’s details, business
details, products details & prices
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Firewalls
What is a firewall?
Firewall is a system designed to stop illegal access to computer or a private network
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What does a firewall do? What is its purpose?
Firewalls are frequently used to stop unauthorized internet users from accessing private
network linked to the internet especially intranets
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