The Internet has become a vast marketplace for global goods and services. For e-commerce to proper, consumers must feel safe when transmitting credit card and other financial information. Because data traveling over the network actually passes through many computers along the way, the opportunity exists for someone to intercept confidential information. With the tremendous potential for doing business online, there’s a lot of time and money being spent trying to make Internet transactions secure. E-mail, e-commerce, online transactions, web-based catalogs, has connected desktops, laptops, and businesses to the world. These applications and the Internet have also connected the world to us. However, this virtual world includes numerous threats to our security, and security of the information housed on our computers. External threats include automated programs that are constantly probing the Internet for vulnerabilities through which they can enter a network and its computers.......
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