subject: Web server vulnerabilities [print this page] Web server vulnerabilities The advances in Internet technology has significantly increased the ways in which computer systems have been involved in crime, and this has created numerous potential sources of digital evidence. In 1989 Tim Berners- Lee invented the World Wide Web. However, since 1991 the Web has become widely accessible and due to increasing popularity, it is often mistakenly referred to as the Internet. Web pages have made it easier for organisations and individuals to interact with other internet applications, meanwhile hiding the difficulty of Web application. The Web popularity and rapid growth is largely due to its commercial potential such as online banking and e-commerce which are all interconnected and performed through the Web. The future offers even more thrilling changes that will continue to enlarge this concept that is not yet two decades old. As the Web becomes more extensively used to make monetary transitions, related criminal activities will increase. Hackers and fraudsters continue to obtain our credit card information by exploiting the vulnerability of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Furthermore, Web developers should have security in mind when building a Website, in order to counter this growing threat. HTML and HTTP were the standards that defined Web architecture and HTTP is a relatively simple, stateless, ASCII based protocol. For more reading on Web server attack mitigation visithttp://www.honeyjet.co.uk/NetworkSecurityArticles.html. To read the second half of this article, and for more information as to how to mitigate these threats, please visit our networking security articles at HoneyJet.co.uk.