Although Web services are becoming business-critical components, they are often deployed
with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners …

This paper describes the design of a test suite for thorough evaluation of web application
scanners. Web application scanners are automated, black-box testing tools that examine …

There are many commercial software security assurance tools that claim to detect and
prevent vulnerabilities in application software. However, a closer look at the tools often …

Black-box web application vulnerability scanners are automated tools that probe web
applications for security vulnerabilities. In order to assess the current state of the art, we …

Security vulnerabilities continue to infect web applications, allowing attackers to access
sensitive data and exploiting legitimate web sites as a hosting ground for malware …

The number and the importance of Web applications have increased rapidly over the last
years. At the same time, the quantity and impact of security vulnerabilities in such …

In recent yeas a lot of web applications have been released in the world. At the same time,
cyber attacks against web application vulnerabilities have also increased. In such a …

In this paper we propose a methodology to inject realistic attacks in Web applications. The
methodology is based on the idea that by injecting realistic vulnerabilities in a Web …

Vulnerability detection tools are frequently considered the silver-bullet for detecting
vulnerabilities in web services. However, research shows that the effectiveness of most of …

Web servers are ubiquitous, remotely accessible, and often misconfigured. In addition,
custom Web-based applications may introduce vulnerabilities that are overlooked even by …