Write short notes on the following: E-Commerce Threats

E-Commerce Threats: Threats may refer to anyone with the capability, technology, opportunity, and intent to do harm. Potential threats can be foreign or domestic, internal or external, state-sponsored or a single rogue element. Details of some threats in e-commerce are as given: Intellectual property threats: Use existing materials found on the Internet without the owner's permission, e.g., music downloading, domain name (cyber squatting), software pirating. Client computer threats: This is about spying software like Trojan horse, or of other computer software attacks like Active contents, Viruses etc. Communication channel threats: It includes Sniffer program, Backdoor, Spoofing, and Denial-of-service, etc. Server threats: It covers Privilege setting, Server Side Include (SSI), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), File transfer, Spamming etc. Hacking: Hackers may gain invalid access to user accounts leading to security issues, loss/theft of personal and bank data, identity theft etc. Inaccurate management: One of the main reason for e-commerce threats is poor management. When security is not up to the mark, it poses a very dangerous threat to the networks and systems.