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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Web security"”.
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Learning-based Cyber Security Analysis and Binary Customization for Security
… rewriting techniques for mobile and web security problems. In mobile malware detection, we focus on detecting repackaged mobile malware. We design and demonstrate an Android repackaged malware detection technique based on code heterogeneity analysis. In post-detection rewriting, we …
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ATTACKS AND COUNTERMEASURES FOR WEBVIEW ON MOBILE SYSTEMS
… mainstream mobile operating systems provide a web container, called ``WebView''. This Web-based interface can be included as part of the mobile application to retrieve and display web contents from remote servers. WebView not only provides the same functionalities as web browser, more …
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Computational Resource Abuse in Web Applications
… Programming Interfaces (APIs) to support Web applications that require complex functionality, e.g., to let end users watch videos, make phone calls, and play video games. Meanwhile, many Web applications employ the browser APIs to rely on the user's hardware to execute intensive …
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Unveiling Emerging Web Application Attack Surfaces
The security of modern web applications is continually challenged by both the evolution of development paradigms and the emergence of new attack surfaces. The OWASP Top 10 consistently shows injection attacks and insecure designs among the most prevalent threats. While issues such as XSS and SQLi …
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Measuring and Understanding TTL Violations in DNS Resolvers
… holds significant importance in aspects of DNS security, such as determining the caching period for DNSSEC-signed responses, as well as performance, like the responsiveness of CDN-managed domains. On a high level, TTL is crucial for ensuring efficient caching, load distribution, and network …
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Analysis of Evasion Techniques in Web-based Malware
Web-based mechanisms, often mediated by malicious JavaScript code, play an important role in malware delivery today, making defenses against web-based malware crucial for system security. To make it even more challenging, malware authors often take advantage of various evasion techniques to evade …
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Protection Models for Web Applications
<p>Early web applications were a set of static web pages connected to one another. In contrast, modern applications are full-featured programs that are nearly equivalent to desktop applications in functionality. However, web servers and web browsers, which were initially designed for static web …
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Automated detection of injection vulnerabilities in web applications
Web applications and browsers embed code from different origins, each of which could have different levels of trustworthiness. These applications provide rich functionality to the users by interacting with each other and with the host machine—usually by sending and receiving information. The …
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Biometric authentication systems for secured e-transactions in Saudi Arabia. An empirical investigation of the factors affecting users' acceptance of fingerprint authentication systems to improve online security for e-commerce and e-government websites in Saudi Arabia.
Security is becoming an increasingly important issue for business, and with it comes the need for appropriate authentication; consequently, it is becoming gradually more important to develop secure e-commerce systems. Fraud via the web, identity theft, and phishing are raising concerns for users …
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Towards secure web browsing
The Web is now the dominant platform for delivering interactive applications to hundreds of millions of users. Correspondingly, web browsers have become the de facto operating system for hosting these web-based applications (web apps). Unfortunately, web apps, browsers, and operating systems have …
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Detection of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Query Injection Attacks in Web Applications
… with LDAP being used in a large number of web applications, different types of LDAP injection attacks are becoming common. The idea behind LDAP injection attacks is to take advantage of an application not validating inputs before being used as part of LDAP queries. An attacker can provide …
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Exploring the Evolution of the TLS Certificate Ecosystem
… internet employ the use of TLS (Transport Layer Security) to secure communication. As a result, there have been numerous efforts including the introduction of Certificate Transparency logs and Free Automated CAs to improve the SSL certificate ecosystem. Our work highlights the effectiveness of …
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From Theory to Practice: Deployment-grade Tools and Methodologies for Software Security
… and recommendations are crucial in software security, which is mostly obstructed by accidental human errors. Automatic screening tools have great potentials to reduce the gap between the theory and the practice. However, the goal of scalable automated code screening is largely hindered by the …
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Dynamic Scoping for Browser Based Access Control System
<p>We have inorganically increased the use of web applications to the point of using them for almost everything and making them an essential part of our everyday lives. As a result, the enhancement of privacy and security policies for the web applications is becoming increasingly essential. The …
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Non-business use of the World Wide Web : A study of selected Western Australian organisations
… range of activities when they use the World Wide Web in the work place. Some of these activities may leave the modem Internet connected organisation vulnerable to undue or unknown risk, potential productivity losses and expense us a result of misuse or abuse or the Internet provision. Much of the …