Cyber Crime
Cyber Crime
First Yahoo! Then eBay. The Nets vulnerability threatens e-commerce–and you
The scenario that no one in the computer security field likes to talk about has come to pass: The biggest e-commerce sites on the Net have been falling like dominoes. First it was Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) On Feb. 6, the portal giant was shut down for three hours. Then retailer Buy.com Inc. (BUYX) was hit the next day, hours after going public. By that evening, eBay (EBAY), Amazon.com (AMZN), and CNN (TWX) had gone dark. And in the morning, the mayhem continued with online broker E*Trade (EGRP) and others having traffic to their sites virtually choked off.
The work of some super hacker For now, law enforcement officials dont know, or wont say. But what worries experts more than the identity of this particular culprit or outlaw group is how easily these attacks have been orchestrated and executed. Seemingly, someone could be sitting in the warmth of their home and, with a few keystrokes, disrupting electronic commerce around the globe.
DEAD HALT. Experts say its so easy, its creepy: The software to do this damage is simple to use and readily available at underground hacker sites throughout the Internet. A tiny
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