Quality of service (QoS) is an important issue in the design and management of web service composition. QoS in web services consists of various non-functional factors, such as execution cost, execution time, availability, successful execution rate, and security. In recent years, the number of available web services has proliferated, and then offered the same services increasingly. The same web ...

Web application security is a branch of Information Security that deals specifically with security of websites, web applications and web services. Simply, Web Application Security is ―The securing of web applications‖. Web applications are one of the most prevalent platforms for information and services delivery over Internet today. As they are increasingly used for critical services, web appli...

WS-Security describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide quality of protection through message integrity, message confidentiality, and single message authentication. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies. WS-Security also provides a general-purpose mechanism for associating security tokens with messages. No specific type...

The promising features of Web services also make them vulnerable to new types of security threats. Web service providers must assure their clients’ confidentiality, integrity and availability over a trusted relationship that may be asynchronous and that may involve multiple business partners. Despite the continued significance of the traditional approaches to securing content, transmission and ...

Session management is a particularly delicate component of web applications, which might suffer from range severe security issues, including impersonation attacks. Unfortunately, the scope and significance prior work on session in wild are limited by complexity attack surface challenges automating login process existing websites. In present article, we fill this gap proposing first comprehensiv...

We observe a rapid growth of web-based applications every day. These applications are executed in the web browser, where they interact with a variety of information belonging to the user. The dynamism of web applications is provided by the use of web scripts, and in particular JavaScript, that accesses this information through a browserprovided set of APIs. Unfortunately, some of the scripts us...