Abstract:
The use of Internet in Pakistan has increased dramatically over the last years. Several organizations whether they are related to government, private, education or commercial sector use websites to provide required information to their visitors/customers. However, the detail study of such websites suggests that the web developers mostly ignore the security issues and just concentrate on how to make the website attractive. Several such websites are easily vulnerable to the major web security attacks such as SQL injection, cross site request forgery, scripting and tracing, denial of service, buffer overflow, etc. This research work attempts to identify the web vulnerabilities present in Pakistani websites by using the penetration techniques, proposes a suitable solution to these vulnerabilities and presents the statistical data of several websites from different sectors in a graphical form.
Page(s):
14-23
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Quaid-e-Awam University Research Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Year: 2013