Creating A Comprehensive Mitigation Strategy For The Ukrainian Website

As mentioned earlier in the report. The vulnerabilities present on the e-commerce site allow a malicious user to intercept the web traffic and locate the hidden form fields and alter the item prices and quantities. These vulnerabilities allow the user to adversely affect the financial stability of the company. As show in the below diagram the user has the ability to user proxy software such as Burp Suite and intercept the traffic and send back manipulated data to the web server and paying reduced prices on all

Some security risks involved with conducting business online are imposters, eavesdroppers and thieves. Also, there are crackers or hackers, which are people who write programs and manipulate technologies to obtain unauthorized access to computers and networks. The elements of computer security are secrecy, integrity and necessity. Secrecy is protecting against unauthorized data disclosure. Integrity is preventing data from being modified by someone who is unauthorized and ensuring that the contents of emails aren’t changed before they get to he recipient. Necessity is preventing data delays or denials. It is important to establish a security policy to protect assets, to define acceptance and unacceptable behavior and to review physical and

When online commerce first emerged, many consumers were wary of supplying their credit cards and giving their personal information to online stores. This led to the development of websites such as Paypal, which restricts the access a retailer has to one’s credit card number (Einstein). The threat of fraud has always been a worry for online consumers, but consumers face the same threats when shopping in a brick and mortar store (Chadwick).

E-commerce security threats and technology solution dimensions consist of integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, privacy, availability, etc. (Laudon & Traver, 2012, p.268). The internet can serve as a very useful tool or it can be a tool manipulated to perform unethical actions. Its function as tool all depends on what the user and what they intend to do with the information they download, view or share. Many analysts trace the increase in the number of issues faced by consumers today to the internet. Internet access has transitioned from a luxury to a common household utility. This shift in demand makes it increasingly easy for criminals such as hackers to gain access to a larger pool of information. This growing pool of

In this era of globalization and cut-throat world of competition, it is virtually impossible to do business without using the internet and web applications. Internet gets used for processing the credit card or debit card sale and even for using to save the data of customers to the merchant’s database for future reference and to send promotional offers to the previous and patron customers. And on the other hand, hackers are trying their best to get the data stored on the merchant’s server by spoofing

As the famous Will Smith once said in his 2015 film, Focus, “There are two kinds of people in this world. There's hammers and there's nails.” Interestingly enough, the truth to that statement could not be emphasized more as with the case of digital crimes involving advance fee fraud scams. In the digital age of the 21st century, “hammers” have enthusiastically adopted computers as their newfound weapon against the “nails” of the earth. It is no secret that digital crime is on the rise and has been ever since the days of phone phreaking Ma Bell. These days, the newest scourge on the pockets and psyches of the average, gullible civilian is the advance fee fraud scam, also known as the Nigerian 419 scam. This paper attempts to further explore this infamous phenomenon in terms of its origin and history, type and design, modern usage, geographical and financial impact, and ultimately its prevention.

He is has been indicted after hacked into OIB’s (Online Information Bureau, Inc.) computer system and control the entire network of OIB by obtained its key passwords. OIB is the business which helps out retail and Internet bargainer by, among other things, websites hosting and credit card data’s processing and other financial transactions. It is Connecticut Corporation based in Vernon, Connecticut. In this capacity, the role of OIB is as a financial transaction “clearinghouse”, by combining and assisting in debiting or crediting of funds against each account for thousands of retail and Internet purchasers and vendors. The acts of Aleksey Vladimirovich Ivanov is considered threatened because manage all things that related to data of financial from companies’ credit card and other financial institutions, collecting and maintaining the information of customer credit card, the numbers of bargainer account are the job of OIB. Because by have that data Aleksey Vladimirovich Ivanov threaten OIB that he will destruct the computer system of OIB if OIB did not fulfill his demand that which request OIB to give him $10,000 as making the system secure

Information security refers to confidentiality (accessible only to authorized individuals), availability (available when requested by an authorized person), and integrity (only authorized removal or alteration of information) of information (Yngstrom and Carlsen, 1997). And information security is required to retain a balance between various users of information (Kranakis et al., 2008). Such protocols have been violated by Noodles & Company as the theft of credit and debit card information has jeopardized the customers’ sensitive financial information. Noodles & Company’s payment system was targeted (Reuters, 2016). In their attempt, the hackers tried and accessed to the company’s payment system. This access enabled the hackers to access the financial information of the company’s customers. Subsequently, it cannot be denied that the hackers may have used the customers’ debit and credit card information for drawing money from the customers or they may have sold to any anonymous third party. In other words, this access has made private and sensitive information a public or sellable item in the black market. Additionally, many customers may have lost hundreds of dollars.

Moving towards a solution: Laws regarding intellectual property should be continuously updated and there must be tougher penalties for online crimes. This may mean the end of Berners-Lee 's regulation-free vision, but it provides an opportunity for a new, eCommerce-friendly online environment.

Throughout the evolution of gaming, there has been a movement of large communities to online gaming. With that high amount of traffic, these online games have become prime targets for crime to emerge from. Due to the online nature and virtual elements of this kind of community, the most common type of crime committed was theft, followed closely by fraud (Chen 2005). With the increase in online communities from online gaming, businesses have started advertising both to these markets and through them. This has opened up not only the online communities to the threat of fraud, but also those businesses and their competitors. This paper will focus primarily on the Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) community, and the ways that fraud is committed in that type of gaming.

Staying one stage in front of fraudsters isn 't simple, particularly for big business IT administrators that are in charge of keeping up framework and information honesty over different geologies and specialties units. By actualizing a modest bunch of techniques to shield the undertaking from the assaults that are destined to debilitate an association now and later on, IT directors can minimize chance and make a venture domain that offers security and also client comfort.

Fraud is present in all aspect of life. It is very common in business environment. Business organizations try to do their best to ensure that fraudulent practices do not put them out of business. Case study is used to establish the value of internal anti-fraud control and to point out that a small business can implement it with common sense and solid auditor’s advice.

Crime on the Internet is creating stunning losses for people as well as organizations of all kinds (Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2009; Mensch & Wilkie, 2011). The necessity to inform and educate faculty, staff, and students of the diversity of threats and methods to protect and mitigate organizations and individuals from these threats is practically a moral imperative. People who lack the fundamental skills and knowledge to safeguard themselves and the institutions they attend or work for, cost those institutions and themselves billions of dollars every year, and the cost is rising (Custer, 2010; Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2009).

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The aim of this report is to discuss the various methods of reducing computer fraud and to find out whether the computer security measures is necessary. In the main body of this report discuss about whether the