Potential Vulnerabilities of Automated Points Accumulating System and Countermeasures

Abstract

In the early 2000s, as the Internet got spread widely and a lot of electronic commerce companies appeared, people in the world became used to transactions that happened on the Internet. The scale of electronic commerce had gotten bigger, eventually, the scale of it reached 400 billion dollars in 2016. Those electronic commerce companies issue online property called points which can be used as cash with a certain ratio to reduce commission for transactions on credit and encourage people to use electronic commerce by simplifying steps needed to buy products on the Internet. Automated points accumulating system transplants this convenient feature of electronic commerce into small offline shops and owners of them get interested in this system. Now a lot of stores introduce and use this system. This paper studies the potential vulnerabilities of this system and suggests several instructions preventing damages from these.