The Internet has revolutionized the world in silence. He has made completion of the fast and easy tasks, makes us dependent on it heavily for almost every aspect of our lives. One of the first tours took place in the banking sector, followed by the booking services of the tickets, after the US military made it their project public ARPANET and allowed universities and businesses to take advantage of this wonderful technology.
Interestingly, computer and programming nerds create reservation systems of primitive web based tickets with the Java language, which is considered by many as the language of the Internet. They do it for their academic projects in their schools and colleges, and these applications are insignificant compared to the commercial versions. However, the case was discussed to make the reader is aware of the popularity of theses Internet-based ticket booking applications.
Now coming to the main point, on-line ticket reservation and hotel reservation systems often provide the option of paying the requested amount on-line, which is referred to as bank transfer in common man's language. These sites use plug-ins from third-party via API, which integrates their website database with the computer systems of the bank and servers through a software-defined network device called the payment gateway.
Typically, these payment gateways are extremely safe environments that use Socket Layer or SSL algorithms, which can be 64 bit or 128-bit encryption algorithms, according to the requirement. SSL 128-bit algorithms are the most secure algorithms deployed in the public domain in order to ensure transfer of funds environments and encrypt sensitive information with a highly secure process that is extremely difficult to decipher by today's standards.
The problem, or rather, the gaps are found with internal data storage mechanisms distributed from the third ticket booking websites. Sometimes, to reduce costs associated with maintaining high standards of safety, these sites do not take appropriate measures to ensure that the information related payments are safe in their servers. It could also be the fact that their servers or database administrators are not skilled enough to ensure strict security measures are deployed.
It may happen that, while no security breach takes place on a part of the transfer system of your bank, there may be security gaps in the hotel or the website of the airline. If their servers are hacked and data is properly extracted from any experienced hacker, your entire details regarding the financial transaction, including the data of the credit card, will be in front of the hackers.
The hacker can simply download or copy information from some other system of its experience and use it to make unauthorized transactions and transfers of funds . Although banks to implement dual-layer verification methods to mitigate such fraud, the process is far from full-proof.
So, think twice before you trust the third party hotel and ticket booking service. Even the best providers of hotel reservation services are vulnerable to such attacks by computer experts servers and they do very little to fill the gaps in their systems and servers.
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