Computer Crime in E-Business

Cyber crime is becoming one of the Net’s growth businesses. Today criminals are doing everything from stealing intellectual property and committing fraud to unleashing viruses and committing acts of cyber terrorisms.

Computer crime is a growing threat to society caused by the criminal or irresponsible actions of individuals who are taking advantage of the widespread use and vulnerability of computers and Internet and other networks. It thus presents major challenges to the ethical use of information technologies.

Computer crime poses serious threats to the integrity, safety, and survival of most E-business systems, and thus makes the development of effective security methods atop priority. Computer crime is defined by the Association of Information Technology Professionals as including:

1. Unauthorized use, access, modification and destruction of hardware, software, data, or network resource

2. Unauthorized release of information

3. The unauthorized copying of software

4. Denying an end user access to his or her own hardware, software, data, or network resources

5. Using or conspiring to use computer or network resources to illegally obtain information or tangible property

This definition was promoted by the association in a Model Computer Crime Act, and is reflected in many computer crime laws.
Computer Crime in E-Business

The Scope of E-commerce

Companies involved in e-commerce as ether buyer s or sellers rely on Internet based technologies, and E-commerce applications and service to accomplish marketing, discovery, transaction, processing, and product and customer services processing.

For example, electronic commerce can include interactive, marketing, ordering, payment, and customer support process at E-commerce catalog and auction site on the World Wide Web, extranet access of inventory databases by customers and suppliers, intranet access of customer relationship management systems by sales and customer collaboration in product development via E-mail and internet newsgroup.

Many companies today are participating in or sponsoring three basic categories of electronic commerce applications, business-to-consumer, business-to-business and consumer-to-consumer E-commerce. However, many E-commerce concepts apply to such applications.

Business to Consumer or B2C
In this form electronic commerce, business must develop attractive electronic marketplaces to entice and sell product and services to consumer. For example, many companies offer E-commerce websites that provide virtual storefronts and multimedia catalogs, interactive order processing, secure electronics payment system, and online customer support.

Business to Business or B2B
This category involves both electronic business marketplace and direct market links between businesses. For example, many companies offer secure Internet or extranet E-commerce catalog websites for their business customers and suppliers. Also very important are B2B E-commerce portal that provide auction and exchange marketplace for businesses. Others may rely on electronic data interchange (EDI) via internet, or extranet for computer to computer exchange of E-commerce documents with their larger business customer s and suppliers.

Consumer to Consumer or C2C
The huge success of online auctions like eBay, where consumers can buy and sell with each other in an auction process at an auction website, make this E-commerce model an important E-commerce business strategy.
The Scope of E-commerce

Trojan Problem

The term ‘trojan horse’ is used nowadays to describe something that appears to be a gift, but that actually is a trap. In the computer security, the term has materialized into ‘a program that appears to be cool, but that erases all files’.

A trojan horse is a type of computer program that programs an ostensibly useful function but contains a hidden function that compromises the host system’s security.

Every time trying to open Internet Explorer to surf the Internet, an error message reads "Failed to get data for 'ad' ", the next thing see is a dreaded illegal operation box and Internet Explorer gets shut down.

When navigating around My Computer or Control Panels, this message will appear although still can navigate the controls, despite the illegal message error.

This is an example of a Trojan. Trojans are not viruses; these are malware that are usually hidden in a.exe file that people download online.

Trojan can be pick up by opening an e-mail attachment containing one.

Scripting enables malicious Web sites to plan a Trojan onto the system when visitors visit the site. For example visitor got to hacker web site to download hacker tools or to learn about hacking. While downloading a file, the website may be planting a Trojan onto his system.

These programs also can be installed in a computer when user leaves the computer logged in when unattended.

Those on receiving end of a Trojan are usually tricked into opening them because they appear to be receiving legitimate software or files from a legitimate source.

Sometime after doing a complete system scan and one may assume that the virus checker caught it. About a week later, the symptoms can resurface.

Try using focused Trojan Remover software. Trojans are not Viruses, so people need a specialized Trojan Remover tool that is constantly updated to combat the multi variations of a single Trojan.
Trojan Problem

Mobile Internet

The internet is to continue playing a prominent role in shaping the future of the computing over the next decade. So, it is not surprise that major technology players are formulating their strategies around the internet and the mobility factor.

The wireless mobile internet, which was dream just a few years ago, is now progressing so fast that it could revolutionize the whole framework of the telecommunications industry.

Using the mobile internet means that the person has connected to the internet by way of a wireless career data connection, usually to get made for mobile information and applications to display on mobile phone screen.

The internet has absorbed all types of media, video, pictures, music and other forms of creative content. While a lot of things have changed, still a lot remain the same. More and more people are enjoying content on line such as reading blogs and sharing photos.

Whether they are looking for fun, information, entertainment or social connection, they want to experience everything to the fullest.

Mobile is the perfect example since more consumers are soon expected to come and go from the Net via their phone rather than desktop. By providing compelling services to consumers, developer, publishers and advertisers, the plan might just bear fruits.

With the extensive progress achieved during the last decade in wireless access technology, switching and routing in the internet and sophisticated hardware and software design, such a comprehensive internet technology would no longer be a dream but a practical reality.
Mobile Internet

eBay

eBay is an online market place that enables trade on a national and international basis. It has become a global phenomena and one of the few international websites that enjoys billion of dollar turnover annually.

Initially, eBay was a primarily a site to auction off collectibles like trading cards, antiques, dolls and homeware, but over years it has exploded to used cars, clothing, books, CDs, and electronics.

It is the platform for trade that can be used by business and individuals alike. eBay brings E-commerce to millions of consumer and small business participants who congregate in thousands of communities of interest that provide the critical mass of buyers and sellers required for then success of the countless electronic auctions taken place daily.

Seller can be a big business, a local stores, or a teenager unloading his old baseball cards.

The businesses credits basic business requirements such as financial discipline, understanding and serving diverse customer needs, building and outstanding management team, and hiring committed employees for eBay’s success.

eBay is huge and it is still growing.

eBay doesn’t sell a thing. Instead, the site dose what all good hosts do: it creates a comfy environment that brings together people with common interests.
eBay

Denial of Service

The first distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks occurred ,more than 11 years ago, in the summer of 1999. These were relatively small attack networks by today’s standards, ranging from several hundred to more than two thousand computer.

University security experts were the first to discover the threat of denial of service attacks hiding in the university computer systems. For example, David Dittrich of the University of Washington discovered denial of service program files stored on the university servers’ months before the first widely publicized attacks on E-ecommerce web sites.

A denial of service attack threatening to prevent the user having access to the service. They attempts to flood a computer network. Thereby preventing legitimate network traffic.

Hackers later used such unsecured university systems as “zombie” machines to help launch massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) against Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and other popular web sits.

The attack, which would typically come from several compromised machine at once, would consumed network bandwidth and use up processing unit cycles on the target machine.

The concern would be what is called distributed denial of service attack where take a lot of compromised end systems and flood a server with the intent of making many request or delivering so much traffic to it that it falls off the network.
Denial of Service