Resumen
The impact of the ubiquitous World Wide Web, the fastest growing element of the Internet, is mind-boggling. The debate about its social and economic impacts will go on for ages, but one fact remains-the Internet is here to stay. Today one have the ability to conduct online shopping, talking, dating and even smelling. Similarly, businesses can share and exchange information for more efficient business practices. And in the same vein, individuals-most of the time complete strangers exchange useful and sometimes profitable information with each other. Information sharing over the Internet has become a prevailing practice in every segment of e-society. While extremely useful for conducting day-to-day business operations, the proliferation of e-commerce over the Internet has provided a perfect target for computer crackers, script-kiddies and other such bad guys. Since the Web is being utilized by both small and large corporations and by governments for conducting their business electronically, people with malicious intent do not have to leave their computers to bring a business to its knees. Although it is a little more difficult to take down a government's computer networks, it can be done. Recent cyber-warfare attacks between the Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East conflicts indicate this is probably likely to become more common in the future. The reliance of a business on the Internet makes it extremely vulnerable to all sorts of attacks.