Web-based learning systems are becoming popular in the recent years. Many courses and lectures are now conducted online. Similar to other web-based applications, security and privacy of Web-based learning systems should not be overlooked. In this paper, we evaluate the security and privacy of general web-based learning systems. We address the security and privacy requirements specific to them. ...

A significant web security issue facing Internet users and organizations is the securing of web content against unauthorised tampering. Users must be comfortable with the security offered by web applications that sensitive web-based services. Some progress has been made in addressing the verification of web server content integrity, but current solutions are restricted by the limitations of the...

With the development and application of SOA technology, security issues of Web services based on heterogeneous platform have become increasingly prominent. The security of SOAP message is of great importance to Web service security. In order to solve the security issue of heterogeneous platforms, a security processing model named SIMSA (Security Interactive Model based on SOAP and Authenticatio...

The exorbitant growth in the field of web services technology has challenged the web developers, vendors and researchers to design and development a variety of enterprise web applications for diverse organizations. Since, security is considered to be an essential part in the development of web applications, web services security has also become an emerging trend in Web services technology. Even...

The World-Wide Web has emerged as a primary means of sharing information on the Internet. It is also a powerful platform for building applications and tying together disparate data sources. As the Web has grown, the demand for security services has grown as well. New applications such as electronic commerce, business transactions, and internal information sharing have driven the development of ...

FOUNDATIONS OF WEB SCRIPT SECURITY Aaron Bohannon Benjamin C. Pierce A web browser works with data and scripts from different sources, and these sources are not all trusted equally by the user of the browser. This fact requires web browser designers to take special care in order to keep information secure within the browser: data from one source should not be stolen or corrupted by a script fro...

Web Services (WS) security has undergone an enormous development, as carried out by the major organizations and consortiums of the industry over the last few years. This has brought about the appearance of a huge number of WS security standards. Such a fact has made organizations remain reticent about adopting technologies based on this paradigm, due to the learning curve which is inevitable in...