Internet has quietly revolutionized the world. It has made tasks easy and quick, which has been heavily dependent on us in virtually every area of our lives. One of the earliest revolutions took place in the banking sector, and the ticket services came after the US Army published the ARPANET project and allowed universities and businesses to take advantage of this wonderful technology.
Interestingly, the computer And programming nerds create primitive web-based booking systems for the Java language, many of which are considered as languages of the Internet. They are doing their academic projects at schools and colleges, and these applications are negligible in commercial versions. However, the issue was discussed to let the reader recognize the popularity of Internet-based ticket requests.
Now that they arrive to the main point, online ticket booking and hotel booking systems often provide the necessary Amount on the Internet, which is called a transfer in the language of the audience. These websites use third-party plugins through the API to integrate their site database with the bank's computer systems and servers through a software-defined network device. [Payment Gateway]
Generally, these payment gateways are extremely secure Environments Encrypted Socket Layer or SSL algorithms are used that can be 64-bit or 128-bit encryption algorithms based on the requirement. 128-bit SSL algorithms are the safest algorithms that are publicly used to secure the base transfer environment and encrypt sensitive information with an extremely secure process that is extremely difficult to break the current standards.
Or rather loopholes come from internal storage mechanisms used on third-party booking websites. Sometimes, in order to reduce the costs associated with maintaining a high level of security standards, these sites do not take the appropriate steps to ensure that payment information is secure in their servers. Your server or database administrators may not have enough expertise to apply strict security measures.
However, while there is no security vulnerability as part of your bank's transfer system, it may be the hotel or the airline's home page. If your servers are hacked and data is properly mined by expert hackers, all details of your financial transaction, including credit card information, will be ahead of the hacker.
The hacker can simply download or block copy the information to another's own system and use the unauthorized transactions and transfers as well. Although banks use double-layer authentication methods to ease such fraud, the process is far from complete. So you think twice about trusting a third-party hotel and ticket booking service. Even the best hotel reservation providers are vulnerable to computer attackers' attacks on such servers, and they do little to make loopholes in their systems and servers.
Source by Ritam Dalui