Web vulnerabilities and countermeasures

• Main Author: Chen, Tiffany Yuhui
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59986
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study investigates the top three OWASP web application security flaw and explores the cyber-attacks which are resulted from the flaws. Cyber-attacks such as session sniffing, session hijacking, SQL injection and cross-site scripting are studied and demonstrated on a vulnerable site created by t...