Web Application is the major application used across the Internet to distribute and access data and hence it’s targeted a lot by attackers. The following are web application attacks: Directory Transversal – Attackers can transverse web directories by exploiting vulnerabilities and access directory that is not supposed to be accessed. Hidden Manipulation – Web Application…
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Web Application Threats
Web Applications are the most used applications on the Internet for sharing, distributing and accessing information. There are various threats with respect to Web Applications which are as following: Broken Access – Attackers bypass access control and access information in an un-authorized manner. Cryptographic failures – Cryptography is used to encrypt data. Improper cryptography implementation…
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a standard developed by ISO for creating markup language documents. It defines the structures to be used for markup language documents. SGML was foundation from which standards like HTML and XML emerged. Reference ISO 8879:1986 – Information processing — Text and office systems — Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
OASIS
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a non-profit organization that develops open standards for Internet and Information Technology specifically in the area of Web and Applications. OASIS was founded under the name “SGML Open” in 1993. It began by developing and supporting projects for SGML. Later with the movement of Internet…
XML (Extensible Markup Language)
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is markup language that is used to store, transmit, and reconstruct data in a human-readable and machine-readable format. XML was developed by World Wide Web Consortium. Key Characteristics of XML Extensible – Users can define and use their own tags to describe the structure data. Self-Descriptive – XML is simple and…
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a non-profit organization that develops standards for World Wide Web (WWW) and HTTP. W3C was founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994 which comprises member organization.
Web Service
A Web Service (WS) is a software function provided over a network that allows different applications to communicate and exchange data using protocols. Standard protocols like XML, SOAP are used for the communications. Web Service Architecture Service Provider is the platform that provides services to the consumers. Service Requester is the client requesting for service…
Web Application
Web Application is a software that run in the browser on the client computing system which provides Graphical User Interface to the user to interact with the web servers for accessing, uploading, updating and processing the data. Web Application Architecture Web Application uses a 3-tier architecture which components which comprises the following: Web Server –…
HTTP
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol which is the foundation of World Wide Web used for accessing and sharing information across Internet. Internet is a collection of Networks that was built to distribute and access information. Many application protocols are used in the Internet for distributing Information out of which HTTP is the…
World Wide Web (WWW)
World Wide Web (WWW) is collection of Web Systems across Internet. Tim Berners-Lee invented Web in CERN during 1989. Web allows documents and other media to be published on web servers that can be accessed by users across Internet using HTTP protocol. Internet is a collection of networks which evolved to share information. Web is…