Techniques for Securing Web Content

Authors

  • Cristian Ursu

Keywords:

web, content, data, information, knowledge, data mining, crawler, protection

Abstract

This paper analyzes the dangers to which web content is exposed, demonstrates how data from the Internet can be gathered and used to obtain profit, how an application can stealthily make use of complicated processing without implementing them and how a website can be cloned in real time. For the considered attacks and vulnerabilities I present, explain, group and evaluate the existing solutions to secure content and last but not least, I suggest a new solution: a library for link encryption.

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Published

2012-06-30

How to Cite

Ursu, C. (2012). Techniques for Securing Web Content. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 4(2), 63-79. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Techniques_for_Securing_Web_Content

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2012): Evolution of ICT Technologies for Distributed and Mobile Systems

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