1. Homework for Wed’s topic: Threats to E-Commerce 1. Review Chapter 5 in Laudon textbook 2. “Facebook's Top Cop”— Joe Sullivan and a staff of 50 people Fortune Magazine: 3/12/12 www.forbes.com/global/2012/0312/companies-people-facebook-joe-sullivan-security-top- cop.html 3. How Paypal founders dealt with fraudsters —see eres or go to this link to read online: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Max-Levchin-likes-the-edge- Starting-another-2540752.php 4 4. Botnets -see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet read in wikipedia how a botnet is created and used to send email spam. 5. If time read: Consumer Reports June 2012: Facebook & your privacy. Who sees the data you share on the biggest social network?

2. EC Marketing 592 Week #8 Nov 7, 2012 Wed: Threats to E-Commerce …Chapter 5 -discussion of the homework reading next Monday— the mobile web see homework on eres

3. In the News : ‘Terror Group –asks for cyber attacks on USA’ Headline this past May…al Qaeda video now encouraging ‘Electronic JIHAD” "Internet piracy is an important field of jihad," the narrator of the video says, according to a translation. He advises followers with expertise to "target the websites and information systems of big companies and government agencies..”

4. In the News (may 2012): ‘Terror Group –asks for cyber attacks on USA’..” the Department of Homeland Security has received more than 50,000 reports of cyber intrusions or attempted intrusions since October, … an increase of 10,000 reports over the same period the previous year.

5. Wednesday’s Topic The dark side of the Internet articles on eres & Chapter 5

6. Types of EC Threats- many ways that E-Commerce & Internet marketing can be negatively affected. Web site outages or transaction problems Ebay & Craigslist fraud Click fraud on paid search advertising sites Denial of service attacks SPAM & Phishing emails-- Fraud & Identity theft Viruses & Trojan Horses..infecting pc ’ s & networks Violation of copyright laws--music, videos