In an environment in which information technology has become a critical link between and among suppliers and customers, organizations were recently threatened by potential systems failures that could have erased the gains of the past decade. Although experts predicted that Y2K could lead to...

In recent months several high‐profile breaches of consumer privacy have raised public concern about data gathering on the Web. The issue of privacy has led to lawsuits by consumers and consumer advocacy groups and investigations by government regulations. As businesses wrestle with the...

Supply chain management (SCM) is increasingly dependent on electronic systems. At the same time, the vulnerability of these systems to attack from malicious individuals or groups is growing. This paper examines some of the forms such attacks can take, and their relevance to the supply function....

Discloses that one of the first organizations to hit the Y2K problem in the UK was the DVLC license authority, which discovered, in 1970, that its 30 expiry dates, over the year 2000 threshold, would not be accepted ‐ other organizations also camp up against this in the UK; in the USA the...

Through the tremendous growth of Internet users during the last few years, organizations now realize the potential market of the information highway. However, these organizations now face the problem of Internet security. The open environment of the Internet contributes greatly to its success,...

A computer virus is a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a copy of itself. When the infected programs are executed, the virus spreads itself to still other programs. Today’s society has seen a dramatic increase in the use of computers; as a result, businesses...