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Web Application Vulnerabilities

3. Introduction to Web Application and it Security
As we know, the growth of the internet was in the rapid paces; a lot of high bandwidth internet services had been provided and introduced into the world market. The web is changing fast from a one-way medium for ‘brochure-ware’ to a highly interactive and increasingly mission-critical platform. With this rapid evolution in web technology, web-based application now been considered as a part of the E-business world and been widely implemented.

Mean while, the changes or development in web technology also bringing with new species of parasite, such as spyware, adware, key-loggers, blog-spam, and IM viruses. In other word, the possibility of a web-based system been hacked had increased. Security is the critical issues that need to be concerned in order to protect the web from the hazards of uninhibited browsing, and also protect the private and confidential information from unauthenticated persons.

What does “security” mean when within an application? Security means protecting something from being attack by outside factors. When we come to “security” this term, most of us will think about hacking, viruses, worms, backdoor Trojan horses and bombarding the web sites with denial service attack. It is because, it been exist quite a period of time in the market and it act as a, but actually it is just part of the security problems. Let get a few examples, internal threats that made by rogue employees in the company or casual user who accidentally accessed sensitive data. All these problems had been ignored by many people. It is also a serious issue that may cause the company or organization business environment into red condition.

Due to this factor, one company or organization should ensure that the secure procedures are implemented within their own application, especially the authentication process and also the session state management of each user. Currently in this century, several authentication...