Survey of different Web Application Attacks & Its Preventive Measures
Rajesh Lomte · IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering · 2013
Securing web is like securing our nation.Our whole world is Internet dependent In each sector internet is very much essential.So, internet security is very much promising task for us.More than 80% attacks are at application layer and almost 90% applications are vulnerable to these attacks.The essential services like banking, education, medicine and defense are internet based application needed high level security services which are essential for the socio-eco growth of the society.In this paper we are discussed the different types of web application attacks like DOS attack, Cross Site Scripting attack(XSS), SQL Injection Attack ,Request Encoding Attack.Survey of these attacks happening in last three to four years .latesthappening with these attacks in India & out of India in the year 2012-13 & 13-14.Similarly we are measuring impact of each attack and putting its proposed counter measures.