Online shopping has always attracted intruders: it is a source of credit card data (now almost irrelevant); user data; data about orders and market trends (consumer demand); a traffic source; manipulation with the discount coupons, etc. An e-commerce site may be attacked as intruders in “free hunting” (non-targeted attack) and by the request of unfair competition. Recently are popular different kinds of DoS/DDoS attacks, as to disable a competitor and as a tool for blackmail.
In this topic, I will describe best practices for the protection of e-commerce sites.
