Web Attacks and Countermeasures

Web applications are vulnerable to attacks from the moment they go online. Over the past few years, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of web attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in web servers, and programming flaws in web applications. More recently, end-users and their workstations have become the latest targets for web attacks focused on the growing sphere of the Internet communities such as MySpace, Facebook, Wikipedia, as well as other community chat rooms, discussion forums, and so on.

As more ingenious attack strategies and schemes appear on the Internet, end-users and the organisations that provide web services need to protect their systems from being compromised. These could in turn become a weapon for attacking other machines.

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