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INF4831 - Cyber Security


Ch 4 - The Web - user side

Major browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari.

Browser attacks

  • Man-in-the-browser
  • Keystroke logger
  • Page-in-the-middle
  • User-in-the-middel

Countermeasures again authentication vulnerabilities

  • Shared secret
  • OTP
  • out-of-band-communications

Web security terms

  • Download substitution
  • Website defacement
  • Fake website
  • Fake code
  • Integrity checksum
  • Signed code
  • web bug
  • clickjacking
  • PGP
  • S/MIME
  • CAPTCHA
  • Drive-by download
  • cross-site injection
  • SQL injection
  • spam

Integrity checksums and signed code are used as controls to protect websites against change.

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