Thursday, February 23, 2006

Security in Online Commerce Rests on 'Illusion of Hope'?

William Eazel writes on SC Magazine Online:

Web security is just an “illusion of hope” and consumers who shop online risk their privacy with every purchase, a U.S. academic claimed today.

According to new research conducted by University of Massachusetts - Amherst computer scientist Kevin Fu, a confluence of factors, including the widespread use of cookies and demand for quick and easy transactions, results in websites that are often insecure.

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