Security vulnerabilities related to web-based data

Identification of Vulnerabilities in Web Services Using Model-Based Security

In a service-oriented architecture, business processes are executed as composition of services, which can suffer from vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities in services and the underlying software applications put at risk computer systems in general and business processes in particular. Current vulnerability analysis approaches involve several manual tasks and, hence, are error-prone and costly...

Greatest Vulnerabilities in Data Security

Study of security vulnerabilities in Web 2.0

Web 2.0’s new technologies greatly extend the capabilities of web applications. With Web 2.0, applications become more interactive and user friendly allowing user-created content. Wikis and blogs are two simple examples of such applications. Unfortunately this new shift comes with a security cost since Web 2.0’s more complex architecture and the lack of understanding by most software developers...

European digital libraries: web security vulnerabilities

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Web vulnerability challenges at European library Web sites and how these issues can affect the data protection of their patrons. Design/methodology/approach – A Web vulnerability testing tool was used to analyze 80 European library sites in four countries to determine how many security vulnerabilities each had and what were the most comm...

Long-term Security Vulnerabilities of Encrypted Data

Large amounts of digital data continuously move across the Internet, much of it traveling under a wide variety of encryption and security protections. Such schemes are intended to secure this data against information theft as it traverses the various nodes along the path to its intended destination. While such methods, when properly utilized, may be considered secure in the short-term, many wid...