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plus1 · **on:** Jun 28, 2018

A sticky website is one that can last for a considerable period of time without major changes and updates.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

There are several security issues that affect consumers. Choose two specific issues. Explain the nature of the issue, what consumers can do to protect themselves, and what business should be doing to protect consumers.

joneynes · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 28, 2018

Answer to Question 1

False

Answer to Question 2

Some of the issues include:

Spyware and adware; what damage these actually do is questionable, but they are of concern to consumers.
Phishing, pfarming, and spoofing are intended to defraud and are potentially quite damaging.
Recent events imply that data security breaches, of data stored by organizations of all types, like the credit card breach of 2012 or even of data in transmission as in the earlier TJX breach, all show that intrusion into systems is a huge problem.
Consumers are correctly concerned about theft of credit card and other financial information both on and offline.
It could be that all of this equals the fear of identity theft.

While there are specific business actions that could be associated with each consumer concern, the imperative seems to be for organizations to upgrade the security of their systems and to stay one step ahead of disgruntled employees or outside hackers. That is obviously a huge undertaking.