• DocumentCode
    3163610
  • Title

    Most known vulnerabilities in Saudi Arabian web servers

  • Author

    Alghathbar, K.S. ; Mahmud, Maqsood ; Ullah, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Center of Excellence in Inf. Assurance, King Saud Univ., Riyadh
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    23-25 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    Vulnerabilities are the loopholes that arise due to poor programming or mis-configuration. Web Applications are considered to be very vulnerable to attack as compared to desktop programs on sole computers. Keeping this thing in our minds we decided to find out the all possible vulnerabilities in Saudi Arabian organizationpsilas Web servers. To assess these vulnerabilities we selected number of open source tools and tested about 169 most popular Web servers of government, Financial, Academic, organizations and commercial organizations. This problem seemed to us interesting because of two reasons, first security is a burning issue of the world and it can be minimized by finding out the vulnerabilities. Secondly it is in the interest of Saudi Arabian national goals. This problem was not addressed before for Saudi Arabian Organizations Web servers so thatpsilas why it carries high importance.
  • Keywords
    Internet; file servers; public domain software; security of data; Saudi Arabian Web servers; Web applications; desktop programs; open source tools; Application software; Banking; Business; Computer crime; Computer viruses; Government; National security; Software measurement; Testing; Web server;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Internet, 2008. ICI 2008. 4th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tashkent
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2282-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2283-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CANET.2008.4655317
  • Filename
    4655317