E-learning system vulnerabilities: Threats and promises for students' information system

摘要

This paper highlights the impact of e-learning system on the stakeholders, by identifying some challenges and guarantees for the platform. After a brief discussion of the particularities of the system, it exploits the potential in offering a better learning experience by categorizing certain vulnerabilities that might affect the system. The paper also focuses on the E-Learning system of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) aiming at helping system developers to eliminate or mitigate these attacks by identifying the potential vulnerabilities.