Phishing : Examples and its Prevention Methods

Hello reader, let me explain

What is Phishing?

Phishing is a form of criminal activity using the engineering technique, in computer world means hacking information or data such as username, password, etc. Criminal will attempts to design a fake website by carried out the email address and instant messaging. Usually, those fake website looks similar to the original website. Most of the people will lack of awareness about the fake website. http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4710














The graph above shows that, phishing is increasing from year 2002 to 2008. There have a dramatically increase from year 2007 to 2008.


Example of Phishing..

ebay

This is the first example of email phishing ebay.com

This email contain a official ebay logo on top of it. However, the link is actually not to the original ebay official website. As they make it look real and attempt to steal username and password.

This is the second example

This spam mail does not carries any name nor ebay login name, it is to uncover the password. In order to avoid this, it is recommend to open a fresh browser window instead of clicking on the link.

There are a lot of example for phishing ebay.com. Let to continue to another website which is citi bank.


How to Prevent Phishing Scam?

1) Do not reply e-mails that request for personal information.
Seeing a picture of a locked padlock in the lower right-hand corner of the BROWSER WINDOW, not the page itself.

2) Do not click on the link in suspicious e-mail.
Seeing an https:// appear in the URL instead of http://
http://security.yahoo.com/article.html?aid=2006102502

3) Use strong or different password for all accounts and change them frequently.
Do not use birthday, id no or any code that relevant to be your password.

4) Do not send any username or password through ordinary e-mail.

5) Access to business with reliable and trustful companies.
Aware with e-commerce, as sometimes we can only communicate through online.

6) Keep computer and antivirus updated to protect personal information.
Keep antivirus and computer updated will help a lot to prevent information leak especially for those who are not professional managing it.

7) Only use one credit card to shop online for easy tracking when anything happened.
When something happened, bank and holder can track and react easily, to halt transfer and disable the card.

8) Use credit card instead of debit card to shop online to prevent leak of large amount of money.

Review on Real-World Case: Google is changing everything

Today, I read the article in Turban’s textbook which titled: Google is changing everything. Google had become one of the company that brings a lot of impacts to users compared to others which implementing e-Commerce (EC) capability. This may be due to its efficient IT and EC management strategy.

I found out there is a lot of benefits that took place by implementing E commerce and all of the examples can be proved by how Google innovating their activities that help public to solve their problems. First of all, Google helps Small Medium Enterprise (SME) to compete with large enterprises by providing them suitable and specific business model. It helps to organize users’ information and publish via the web so that anyone can access it easily.

In addition, EC is providing ubiquity to users because they can shop anytime from anywhere. For example, https://www.google.com/froogle/merchants/welcome. is a website which allows users to compare the price and item with other companies. This save customer times to compare from one shopping centre to another shopping center and have more choices from varieties of products, services, vendors and styles. Users can get more information from EC than the physical stores because it helps to find what your need easily, tells you more details about the products tat you choose, demos and etc.

In the article, it tells me about Enterprise Search is a tool that helps identify and enable organization to share information with authorized users. This can improve the organization performance by offering the other applicants i.e. suppliers to access the enterprise information such as reports and business events.

An example of enterprise that succeeds by using this tool in this article is Kaiser Permanente They need to make sure there is updating knowledge is available for its doctors, nurses and other caregivers. EC can be global reach and publish updated information that help users make the best decision such as do research on diagnoses and specify treatments. More over, EC can reduce pollution and traffic jam by enabling telecommunicating and facilitate work at home. Means, there is more education, health information and etc that is available for more people even though they are at home or live at rural area.

As a conclusion, invention of e Commerce capabilities had brings huge changes in the global and it makes Google had change everything in order to compete with other competitors. What had they done is proven that, they are successful and brings usefulness to the public; therefore, they are expanding their business and gaining revenue by matching global needs.

Sources : A review on Real-World Case: Google is changing everything, from the textbook Chapter1 pg.38.

Turban, E., King, D., McKay, J., Marshall, P., Lee, J., & Viehland, (2008). Electronic Commerce: A managerial Perspective 2008. (International Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Education International.

History and Revolution of E-commerce

History of E-commerce was started since the invention of the very old notion of selling and buying, electricity, cables, computers, modems and importantly Internet. The usage of E-commerce became possible once the Internet can be commercially used. After that, thousands of transactions were generated at websites.

As far as back to early 1960, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) was developed. It is a set of standard that allow a company’s computer system to share business information and generate transaction with another company.

In 1979, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) came up with ASCX 12, which is stable and reliable for transferring large amounts of business documents.

Arpanet was developed in late 1960 which were connecting the four large research universities in US. Researchers developed Terminal Interface Processor (TIP) for dialing Arpanet from individual computer terminal but in 1982, Arpanet switched over to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP).

Mosaic web-browser was made available in 1992 that it was the first ‘point-and-click browser. Mosaic web-browser allows easier access to E-commerce because that browser was adapted Netscape, a downloadable browser. Netscape 1.0 which was released in 1994 contains Secure Socket Layer (SSL) which was security protocol that encrypted messages on both sending and receiving side of online transaction. It is important to ensure the personal information such as name, address, phone and credit card numbers could be encrypted as they passed over the Internet.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) was another development of E-commerce in 1998. DSL allows quicker access and has persistent connection to Internet.

I now end my post by presenting you a video clip, E-commerce Evolution, to make the history more understandable.

An example of an e-commerce failure and its causes

The example of an e-commerce is eToys.com. EToys.com is a retail website that sells toys through the internet. EToys was founded in 1997 and at that time it was the first online toy retailer. By 1998, eToys.com became the third largest e-commerce site in the country. EToys.com was founded by Toby Lenk. The funding is from Sequoia Capital, Highland Capital Partners and Idealab. The company went bankrupt near the end of the dotcom boom. Dot-com boom is the period marked by the founding of a group of new internet-based companies. The company that owned the eToys site filed for bankruptcy toward the end of the Internet bubble on March 7, 2001. EToys.com was then reopened by eToys Direct Inc. EToys.com changes a number of ownership and at the end it was acquired by Toys "R" Us in February 2009.

In 1999, the company was involved in a dispute with Swiss art site etoy. EToys filed a suit against Swiss art site etoy.com for trademark infringements. The domain of Swiss art site etoy.com was similar to its own domain. The suit was dropped and etoys.com in turn filed a lawsuit against eToys.com. The suit against Swiss art site etoys.com was a huge mistake. EToys had a highly successful Initial Public Offering in 1999. Shares issued at $20 rose to $76 on the first day of trading, but in February 2001, its stock went from $84 per share to 9 cents per share. EToys spent millions on advertising, marketing, and technology to compete with its competitors. All the spending incurred exceeds the company's income and investors quickly turn to other company, this leads to the failure of eToys.com. EToys.com does not have a solid infrastructure before its expansion. They had a rapid expasion and this causes them to failed. Another cause is because eToys did not deliver their product on time. Sales were low and many customers did not receive their products and this quickly spread to everyone. The customer satisfactions were low and they go to other competitors.


References:

https://share.zoho.com/preview/presentation/21397000000005003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EToys.com

Success Factors and its Causes

Nowadays, E -commerce is very common type of business in the online transaction. In this new generation, people prefer to shop online because they would like to buy whatever they want and also can search whatever they wish around the world. It is very convince to consumer to shop everything. For example, Amazon.com is a successful e-commerce and it is well known throughout the world. What is the factor tend to Amazon be a successful e commerce?

A list of top ten companies of the decade it would not be completed without Amazon.com. The company is considered one of the top in the e commerce industry and has managed to continue success.

There are the four categories tend to Amazon.com be a global acceptance and successful in e commerce. The four factors are, unique shopping experience, offering competitive prices, straightforward wed design and friendly interface, lastly Amazon has a convince payment system.

Unique shopping experience: Provide service for customers enable them to buy and to return. Sales promotion occurs in Amazon.com as well, which involve coupons, special offers and discount. Some books has provided the signature of author rather than buy books from other companies.

Competitive Price: Amazon is very differently to the other companies, because they offer the prices of a product from different companies to let buyer be able compares. Besides that, any fees for product listing and its cost will be paid by sellers until the products are sold.

Web page design and friendly interface: We can provide personal attention, to personalized web sites, give comments, purchase suggestion and personalized special offers. Just like running a self business.

Convenience payment system: For every e-commerce company, the most convenience issue of success is payment. We can pay for the shopping by credit card, otherwise it will take times for other payment method.

More information regrds to the amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Spore-Pc/product-reviews/B000FKBCX4

http://www.amazon.com/

A Little Me...

Hi, I am Chow Sook Yee; people tend to call me Suki. I am from Kuala Lumpur the capital city of Malaysia; I love Kuala Lumpur very much because it is the most advance city around Malaysia. KL (Kuala Lumpur) contains a variety type of shopping areas such as Midvalley, KLCC. From the cheapest to the most expensive, from hat to shoes with all kinds of fashions.


I born into a very cute and small family, there are 6 members in my family, my parents, an elder brother and sister, and eventually a younger brother. Unfortunately, I lack of a younger sister, I really wish to have one if possible.


My biggest hobby is watching movie, I prefer funny movies the most, because it will bring happiness to whom watching it. I love other types of movies too, sometimes I went cinema to watch some newly released film as well.


I have a lovely pet, it’s cute and I like it very much, its name is Ken Ken. It always brings a lot of happiness to my family. Sometimes, it will accompany me when I am bored. It is like know what I am thinking too, that is the reason why I love it so much.


During my life studying in UTAR (University Tunku Abdul Rahman), I have learned a lot especially when I was participating in soft skill courses. As I got the opportunity to learned a lot that I can never learn from books, it does improve a lot in my life.


The top 5 websites I have visit includes Google, Hotmail, Ebay, Yahoo and Utar.edu.my. Mostly I will use search engines such as Google or Yahoo to search for my work. These websites are very useful as it allow us to find things easily and convenient. Besides that, internet surfing allow us to do a lot of things at these days, it enable us to know a lot that we wouldn’t normally find from the book.

A Short Note About SherLing

Hello,a good day to you =) I am SherLing and I am the youngest in my family.

I am from Bukit Mertajam, Penang. Bukit Mertajam is a small town located at Butterworth. (My friends has just corrected me. She said that Bukit Mertajam is located at Penang.) Ever heard it? Perhaps next time you can pay me a visit and I will tour you around where to have nice foods that you may not try before and some must go places. Be prepared that we might get lost =p

My nickname is "Mushroom Head"when I was in my secondary school. this is because since I was small, my hair was short and it looked like a mushroom. This nickname kind of haunted me for more than five years which I swear that I would never cut my hair that short anymore.

In my free time, i love to surf net and try to relax myself away from those stressful studies. Staying at home all the time is boring and therefore I also enjoy hanging out with my besties. Capturing pictures is a MUST to keep the happy moments. Pictures can tell everything! Shopping is my all time favourite as I can shop whole day!

The followings are five top sites that I visit the most:
www.facebook.com This is the most popular social network so far. I upload pictures and update my friends' current life through Facebook.
www.dygod.com This is the site where I download all the movies and dramas.
www.blogger.com I blog my everyday's life and read my friends' blogs too.
http://bambeedear.blogspot.com This is one of the online boutique I will stop by.
www.seekasong.com & http://mp3.qihoo.com is where I download the latest songs.

Basically this is about SherLing and hope you enjoy reading it.
Thank you for your time and have a good day.^^

Introduction

Hi.
My name is Tai Li Jie. I'm 21 years old this year. I'm from Taiping but currently staying in Subang since 13 years old. I have three siblings and i'm the youngest. My secondary school is SMK Subang Utama. Ihave studied in UTAR for 3 years and 1 more year to go.

In my free times, I will watvh TV or drama on my computer. My hobbies are swimming and play badminton. Besides that I also like travelling but don't have money.

When I go online, normally I will go to www.hotmail.com to check my mail and to forward some of it. I will also go to www.facebook.com to play restaurant city and browse through the hompage. Beside that, the website that i often visit is www.thestar.com.my. I will got here and read the news instead of reading the hardcopy of the newspaper. It is easy and fast beacuse I can read the latest news now instead of tomorrow's newspaper. I will also go to www.friendster.com to see whether there is any updated information about my friends. The other website is www.google.com which i will go there to search for information that I want to know and especially to search for information for my assignment.