DocumentCode
2898085
Title
Sensitive Data Requests: Do Sites Ask Correctly?
Author
Shue, Craig A. ; Gupta, Minaxi
Author_Institution
Comput. Sci. Dept., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA
fYear
2009
fDate
14-18 June 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
To ensure the security of sensitive Web content, an organization must use TLS and do so correctly. However, little is known about how TLS is actually used on the Web. In this work, we perform large-scale Internet-wide measurements to determine if Web sites use TLS when needed and when they do, if they use it correctly. We find hundreds of thousands of pages where TLS is either not used when it should be or is used improperly, putting sensitive data at risk.
Keywords
Web sites; content management; security of data; transport protocols; TLS protocol; Web page; Web site; large-scale Internet-wide measurement; sensitive Web content security; sensitive data request; transport layer security; Access protocols; Communications Society; Computer science; Computer security; Data security; Internet; Large-scale systems; Protection; Transport protocols; Web pages;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications, 2009. ICC '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Dresden
ISSN
1938-1883
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3435-0
Electronic_ISBN
1938-1883
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICC.2009.5199450
Filename
5199450
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