E-commerce alarming security symptoms review and discussion of attacks indicators in e-commerce

Abstract

The research in the field of e-commerce security and cyber frauds is continually arising. Many measures were taken to facilitate dealing with security attacks to protect the e-commerce system as a whole. However, most of these measures work only after the attack took place. In this research, we take a new approach in identifying some symptoms relating to the e-commerce website, web-server or network that might be an alarming indicator that the e-commerce system is at risk. The correlation of the existence of these symptoms with security attacks is relatively high as we show in this study and is highly crucial for e-commerce websites operators to protect their e-commerce system as a whole. The preliminary contribution of this paper is being one of the first to investigate such alarming symptoms in the field of e-commerce to ultimately detect vulnerabilities causing security breaches to the e-commerce system before their occurrence.