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E-commerce Security Threats Are Legion
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November 15, 1999

Common Attack Strategies

Some of the common attack methods that Schneier lists include:

  • Attacks on cryptographic designs
  • Attacks against implementations
  • Attacks against passwords
  • Attacks against hardware
  • Attacks against trust models
  • Attacks against users
  • Attacks against failure recovery methods
  • Attacks against cryptography
  • Failures to detect attacks when they occur

People must realize that the adversary never sleeps and is always poised to exploit any vulnerabilities they find or ''think'' they''ve found. As e-commerce proliferates and valuable treasures of is collected in ever-increasing volume, the adversary is that much more motivated to carry out misdeeds.


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