Mobile CoMMerCe

T he worldwide proliferation of the Internet has led to the emergence of an extensive range of services—one of the most popular being electronic commerce (e-commerce).1 Recent technological advances in the design of portable devices, along with increasing high-speed Internet access and mobile networking technologies, have enabled users to employ such devices anywhere, anytime to perform e-commerce transactions in addition to operations such as browsing the Web and reading email.2 The wireless technological revolution has enabled mobile devices to become a critical component of the new digital economy, in which users execute transactions while on the move. Mobile e-commerce (or m-commerce) is considered a natural extension of e-commerce and represents a new way for conducting commerce.3,4 M-commerce refers to e-commerce transactions conducted through a mobile device via wireless networks. The electronic payment performed in wireless environments leads to the term mobile payment (or m-payment), which is defined as any payment transaction involving the purchase of goods or services that is completed with a wireless device. M-payments facilitate m-commerce because they let users make online purchases from their mobile devices remotely at any time. We present the major security issues that must be taken into consideration when designing, Secure Mobile Payment Systems