  The explosion in the e-commerce industry which has been necessitated by the
growth and advance expansion of Information technology and its related
facilities in recent years have been met with adverse security issues
consequently affecting the industry and the entire online activities. This
paper exams the prevailing security threats e-commerce is facing which is
predominantly known as cyber-crime and how computer related technology and
facilities such as digital forensics tools can be adopted extensively to ensure
security in online related business activities. This paper investigated the
risk, damage and the cost cyber-crime poses to individuals and organizations
when they become victims. As it is obvious transacting business online as well
as all related online activities has become inherent in our everyday life. The
paper also comprehensively elucidate on some of the cyber-crime activities that
are posing serious threat to the security of E-commerce. Amazon and eBay were
used as the case of study in relation to respondents who patronizes these
renowned e-commerce sites for various transactions.
  Keywords: E-commerce Security,Cyber-Crime,digital forensics, Network
forensics, Network security, Online transactions, Identity theft, hacking.
