With JavaScript and images at their disposal, web authors can create content that is immediately understandable to a person, but is beyond the direct analysis capability of computer programs, including security tools. Conversely, information can be deceiving for humans even if unable to fool a program. In this paper, we explore the discrepancies between user perception and program perception, u...

In recent years, managing the security over web has gained its importance. Use of appropriate handling techniques help to solve controversies and extract interesting scenarios based on content page. Many varieties vulnerabilities prevail Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability is ranked among top ten risks found which a mandatory issue that requires solution. XSS injects malicious code in many...

  One of the most famous methods for recommendation is user-based Collaborative Filtering (CF). This system compares active user’s items rating with historical rating records of other users to find similar users and recommending items which seems interesting to these similar users and have not been rated by the active user. As a way of computing recommendations, the ultimate goal of the user-ba...

A variety of attacks, including remote-code execution exploits, malware, and phishing, are delivered to users over the web. Users are lured to malicious websites in various ways, including through spam delivered over email and instant messages, and by links injected in search engines and popular benign websites. In response to such attacks, many initiatives, such as Google’s Safe Browsing, are ...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) witness a rise in user activity whenever an event takes place. Malicious entities exploit this spur in user-engagement levels to spread malicious content that compromises system reputation and degrades user experience. It also generates revenue from advertisements, clicks, etc. for the malicious entities. Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, is no exceptio...

Many contemporary Web sites incorporate third-party content in the form of advertisements, social-networking widgets, and maps. A number of sites like Facebook and Twitter also allow users to post comments that are then served to others, or allow users to add their own applications to the site. Such third-party content often comprises of executable code, commonly written in JavaScript, that run...

expert discovery is a quest in search of finding an answer to a question: “who is the best expert of a specific subject in a particular domain within peculiar array of parameters?” expert with domain knowledge in any field is crucial for consulting in industry, academia and scientific community. aim of this study is to address the issues for expert-finding task in real-world community. collabor...