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 Online Companion, Electronic Commerce, Second Edition, Schneider/Perry
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C h a p t e r   5:
Security Threats to Electronic Commerce

Chapter 5

Introduction

Internet Worm
(One of hundreds of resource sites on Robert Morris's worm)

Security Overview

Center for Security Policy
(A non-profit organization that helps others formulate security policies)
Copyright Clearance Center
U.S. Copyright Act of 1976

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Intellectual Property Threats

Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)
(Protects U.S. trademarked names in domain name disputes)
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Napster
Network Solutions Inc. (NSI)
(A domain name registrar)
The Copyright Website

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Client Threats

ActiveX controls library
(CNET)
Cookies: all about them
Cookie Central
Cookie Crusher
(Cookie management program)
Cookie Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ)
Cookie Pal
(Cookie management program)
Cool applets
(Active content examples)
Download Cookie Pal
(Click to display a page from which you can download Cookie Pal)
Java applet central
(All about Java applets)
Java sandbox
(A Sun Microsystems white paper on Java security)
Java security
(Sun's site)
Netscape's Plug-ins (Plug-ins for the Netscape browser)
Privacy Council
(A site devoted to both business and legal privacy issues)
Security and signed applets
Steganography
Steganography products, More steganography products
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
(Antivirus software)
Virus Information
(A comprehensive listing of viruses)

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Communication Channel Threats

Anonymizer
(Keep URLs secret)
Internet Worm 1
(A paper describing details about Robert Morris' worm attack)
Internet Worm 2: The What, Why, and How of the 1988 Internet Worm
(A history written by Tom Darby and Charles Schmidt.)

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Server Threats

Buffer overflow attacks
(Solaris)
Buffer overflow attacks
(Red Hat Linux)
Carnegie Mellon University
(CERT headquarters)
CERT alerts
CERT attack advisory
CGI Script threats
(W3C FAQ page)
ColdFusion server security bulletins
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT®) Coordination Center
Database threats resource center
(A repository of database security papers and solutions)
Secure Web servers
W3C Threat Document
(World Wide Web Consortium Security FAQ documents)

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Exercises

Exercise 1
Java
(Sun's site)
Java Inventor, James Gosling
JavaScript FAQ
JavaScript Primer
Making Sense of Java
Website Abstraction

Exercise 3
CERT alerts
CERT attack advisory

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Additional Resources

Cybersquatting and the law
IPivot
(Commerce Accelerator 1000 eliminates Internet bottlenecks during SSL sessions)
NameProtect.com
Web security
(Many links and articles)
Whois.Net

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