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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CANET.2008.4655317