A Review of Web Application Security Risks: Auditing and Assessment of the Dark Web

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch A S Murty ◽  
Harmesh Rana ◽  
Rachit Verma ◽  
Roshan Pathak ◽  
Parag H Rughani
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Dark Web

An Alternative Threat Model-based Approach for Security Testing

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bouchaib Falah ◽  
Mohammed Akour ◽  
Samia Oukemeni
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Security Testing ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Malicious Codes ◽  
Testing Approach ◽  
Interaction Web

In modern interaction, web applications has gained more and more popularity, which leads to a significate growth of exposure to malicious users and vulnerability attacks. This causes organizations and companies to lose valuable information and suffer from bad reputation. One of the effective mitigation practices is to perform security testing against the application before release it to the market. This solution won't protect web application 100% but it will test the application against malicious codes and reduce the high number of potential attacks on web application. One of known security testing approach is threat modeling, which provides an efficient technique to identify threats that can compromise system security. The authors proposed method, in this paper, focuses on improving the effectiveness of the categorization of threats by using Open 10 Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) that are the most critical web application security risks in generating threat trees in order to cover widely known security attacks.

An Alternative Threat Model-Based Approach for Security Testing

2018 ◽  
pp. 441-454
Author(s):  
Bouchaib Falah ◽  
Mohammed Akour ◽  
Samia Oukemeni
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Security Testing ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Threat Model ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Malicious Codes ◽  
Testing Approach ◽  
Interaction Web

In modern interaction, web applications has gained more and more popularity, which leads to a significate growth of exposure to malicious users and vulnerability attacks. This causes organizations and companies to lose valuable information and suffer from bad reputation. One of the effective mitigation practices is to perform security testing against the application before release it to the market. This solution won't protect web application 100% but it will test the application against malicious codes and reduce the high number of potential attacks on web application. One of known security testing approach is threat modeling, which provides an efficient technique to identify threats that can compromise system security. The authors proposed method, in this paper, focuses on improving the effectiveness of the categorization of threats by using Open 10 Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) that are the most critical web application security risks in generating threat trees in order to cover widely known security attacks.

scholarly journals USE OF “OWASP TOP 10” IN WEB APPLICATION SECURITY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Nedeljković ◽  
◽  
Natalija Vugdelija ◽  
Nenad Kojić ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Increased Risk

Web application security vulnerabilities can lead to various attacks on users, some of which can have major consequences. It is important to point out the weaknesses that allow abuse, because often increased risk awareness is the first step in protecting web applications. Some of the most critical security risks that organizations face today have been analyzed and uncovered using OWASP Top 10. This paper presents concrete examples of attacks and abuse of web applications. Through the implementation and analysis of attacks on web applications, weaknesses that need to be eliminated in order to protect against potential new attacks are identified. Especially, suggestions to help protect web applications from each type of attack listed and described are provided.

scholarly journals Preventive Measures for Cross Site Request Forgery Attacks on Web-based Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.15) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Emil Semastin ◽  
Sami Azam ◽  
Bharanidharan Shanmugam ◽  
Krishnan Kannoorpatti ◽  
Mirjam Jonokman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Operating Cycle ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Business World ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Combined Solution ◽  
Cross Site Request Forgery

Today’s contemporary business world has incorporated Web Services and Web Applications in its core of operating cycle nowadays and security plays a major role in the amalgamation of such services and applications with the business needs worldwide. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) states that the effectiveness of security mechanisms in a Web Application can be estimated by evaluating the degree of vulnerability against any of the nominated top ten vulnerabilities, nominated by the OWASP. This paper sheds light on a number of existing tools that can be used to test for the CSRF vulnerability. The main objective of the research is to identify the available solutions to prevent CSRF attacks. By analyzing the techniques employed in each of the solutions, the optimal tool can be identified. Tests against the exploitation of the vulnerabilities were conducted after implementing the solutions into the web application to check the efficacy of each of the solutions. The research also proposes a combined solution that integrates the passing of an unpredictable token through a hidden field and validating it on the server side with the passing of token through URL.  

DATABASE PROTECTION BASED ON WEB APPLICATION FIREWALL

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
Rustam Kh. Khamdamov ◽  
◽  
Komil F. Kerimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Database Security ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Client Request ◽  
Database Protection ◽  
Information Bank

Web applications are increasingly being used in activities such as reading news, paying bills, and shopping online. As these services grow, you can see an increase in the number and extent of attacks on them, such as: theft of personal information, bank data and other cases of cybercrime. All of the above is a consequence of the openness of information in the database. Web application security is highly dependent on database security. Client request data is usually retrieved by a set of requests that request the application user. If the data entered by the user is not scanned very carefully, you can collect a whole host of types of attacks that use web applications to create security threats to the database. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, web application programmers usually focus on the functionality of web applications, but only few worry about security. This article provides methods for detecting anomalies using a database firewall. The methods of penetration and types of hacks are investigated. A database firewall is proposed that can block known and unknown attacks on Web applications. This software can work in various ways depending on the configuration. There are almost no false positives, and the overhead of performance is relatively small. The developed database firewall is designed to protect against attacks on web application databases. It works as a proxy, which means that requests for SQL expressions received from the client will first be sent to the developed firewall, rather than to the database server itself. The firewall analyzes the request: requests that are considered strange are blocked by the firewall and an empty result is returned to the client.

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