| Author: | Li, Ka-wui |
| Title: | Web vulnerabilities exploitation and prevention |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Subject: | Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations Computer security Computer networks -- Security measures Privacy, Right of |
| Department: | Department of Computing |
| Pages: | x, 142 leaves : ill. ; 31 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Modern web applications are not simple web pages that provides read only information, they provide graphical user interface through the recent improvement of presentation ability of web browsers, mimicking real desktop applications. Web applications are usually open to public Internet access, thousands of malicious users that try to probe for security holes and make use of them for stealing valuable private information. The purpose of this project is to review the security problems and their corresponding prevention techniques in modern web applications, a combination of security measures will be proposed, which web applications can be secured and be prepared for the future evolution of web attacks. Web attack methods like brute force attacks on system login pages, forgery web sites involved in online phishing, cross site scripting (XSS) and cross site request forgery (CSRF) attacks will be discussed in detail. Advanced real world attacks will be illustrated as case studies.A set of effective prevention counter measures and general secure web development policies will be proposed, then experiments will be done to test the effectiveness of the combination of web security techniques which provides the best value in terms of their effectiveness, costs of implementation and usability. The results of this project will become a guide of security which new web applications should basically implement, or as the basic standard for security review of existing web applications. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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