The Internet has quietly revolutionized the world. He quickly and quickly completed tasks, forcing us to depend heavily on this for almost all aspects of our lives. One of the earliest revolutions occurred in the banking industry, and then ticket booking services after the US military made their ARPANET project public and allowed universities and enterprises to take advantage of this wonderful technology.
Interestingly, programmers and programmers create primitive web-based ticket booking systems with the Java language, which many consider to be the language of the Internet. They do this for their academic projects in their schools and colleges, and these applications are irrelevant to commercial versions. However, the matter was discussed in order to make the reader understand the popularity of Internet applications for booking tickets on the Internet.
Now, having come to the main point, online ticket booking and hotel booking systems often provide an opportunity to pay the required amount on the Internet, which is called “bank transfer” on an ordinary person. These websites use third-party plug-ins through API interfaces that integrate the database of their website with computer systems and bank servers through a software network device called the Payment Gateway.
Typically, these payment gateways are extremely secure environments that use secure socket or SSL algorithms, which can be 64-bit or 128-bit encryption algorithms based on this requirement. 128-bit SSL algorithms are the most secure algorithms deployed in the public domain to secure funds transfer and encrypt confidential information using a highly secure process that is extremely difficult to crack by existing standards.
The problem, or rather, loopholes lie with internal data storage mechanisms deployed on third-party ticket booking sites. Sometimes, to reduce the costs associated with maintaining high standards of security, these websites do not take adequate measures to ensure the security of information related to payments on their servers. There may also be the fact that their server or database administrators are not sufficiently qualified to ensure the deployment of strict security measures.
It may happen that, although the security break does not occur in part of your bank's transfer system, security leaks may appear on the liner on the hotel’s or airline’s own website. If their servers are hacked and the data is properly extracted by any expert hacker, all your details regarding the financial transaction, including your credit card details, will be in front of the hacker.
A hacker can simply download or copy information into some other proprietary system and use it to perform unauthorized transactions and transfer funds. Although banks use two-tier verification methods to mitigate such fraudulent activities, this process is far from complete.
So, think twice before trusting the services of third-party organizations and booking tickets. Even the best hotel reservation service providers are vulnerable to such cyber expert server attacks, and they do very little to plug loopholes in their systems and servers.
