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INTE1070/1071 Secure Electronic Commerce
Assignment 1
1. Overview
The objective of Assignment 1 is evaluating your knowledge on the topics covered in Lecture 1-4. Topics include an
overview of the E-Commerce system, common security attacks on E-Commerce websites, protecting E-commerce
sites using well-known approaches, and some fundamentals of crypto protocols that are used for securing electronic
commerce. Assignment 1 will focus on developing your abilities in identifying security flaws in an e-commerce website
and securing the e-commerce application using some of the well-known approaches. Assignment 1 contains several
problems related to the topics mentioned above. You are required to prepare the solutions with the description of
the step-by-step processes as a single PDF or MS Word file and necessary codes.
There are 4 (four) questions in Assignment-1. Q1 is related to different security attacks that can be performed on an
e-commerce website. On the other hand, Q2 to Q4 are related to some of the popular protection methods that are
used in e-commerce applications. Protection methods include Google’s ReCaptcha V2 and V3, email and SMS based
multifactor authentication, and Google’s two factor authentication (2FA) framework.
Develop the solution of this assignment in an iterative fashion (as opposed to completing it in one sitting). You should
be able to start preparing your answers immediately after the Lecture-1 (in Week-1). At the end of each week starting
from Week-1 to Week-4, you should be able to solve at least one question.
If there are questions, you must ask via the relevant Canvas discussion forums in a general manner.