Security in the Browser: Web browsers leave users vulnerable to an ever-growing number of attacks. Can we make them secure while preserving their usability?

Abstract

Sealed in a depleted uranium sphere at the bottom of the ocean. That’s the often-mentioned description of what it takes to make a computer reasonably secure. Obviously, in the Internet age or any other, such a machine would be fairly useless.

References

1. Stamos, A., Lackey, Z. 2006. Attacking AJAX web applications. iSEC Partners; http://www.isecpartners.com/ files/iSEC-Attacking_AJAX_Applications.BH2006.pdf.
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Index Terms

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval

  • Information storage systems

• Security and privacy

• Social and professional topics

  • Computing / technology policy

    • Computer crime