Web Malware that Targets Web Applications

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Author(s): Ammar Alazab (Deakin University, Australia), Jemal H. Abawajy (Deakin University, Australia)and Michael Hobbs (Deakin University, Australia)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 17
Source title: Social Network Engineering for Secure Web Data and Services
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Luca Caviglione (Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (ISSIA), Italy), Mauro Coccoli (University of Genoa, Italy)and Alessio Merlo (University of Genoa & Università Telematica e-campus, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3926-3.ch012

Keywords: Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics / Media & Communications / Social Networking

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Web applications have steadily increased, making them very important in areas, such as financial sectors, e-commerce, e-government, social media network, medical data, e-business, academic an activities, e-banking, e-shopping, e-mail. However, web application pages support users interacting with the data stored in their website to insert, delete and modify content by making a web site their own space. Unfortunately, these activities attracted writers of malicious software for financial gain, and to take advantage of such activities to perform their malicious objectives. This chapter focuses on severe threats to web applications specifically on Structure Query Language Injection Attack (SQLIA) and Zeus threats. These threats could adopt new obfuscation techniques to evade and thwart countermeasures Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). Furthermore, this work explores and discusses the techniques to detect and prevent web application malware.

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