WEB vulnerable to breaches - Caterina Cates (the chimp paradox .txt) 📗

WEB vulnerable to breaches

Securing the web means to secure every possible channel of data travel between the host and the client which are:

The Web Server

Data enroute to and from Web Server

Client computer

We can see that this task is complex and why the web is vulnerable to security breaches.

Web servers are the face of an organization to the public. A successful attack on a web server may be seen by hundreds of thousands of people, creating a bad public image for that organization. In 1996, the official website of the CIA was hacked into merely as an act of vandalism. The title was changed from “Central Intelligence Agency” to “Central Stupidity Agency”. There was also a case where the internal network of AT&T was infected with a virus deleting critical information. You can protect your devices using different VPN services, for example VPN Master by VeePN. This is one of the most common ways to defend against different viruses and other harmful software.

Data enroute to and from a web server may also be intercepted by a third party. Hackers may also set up programs to bombard the Web Server with thousands of requests per second making it hard to handle valid requests.

HTML alone does not pose a direct security threat but it also limits the possibilities for an interactive web based experience. That’s why companies use technologies such as ActiveX, Java, Javascript and plug-ins etc. These technologies definitely make the web pages look more alive, but at the cost of security.

Publication Date: 03-21-2020

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