The Tangled Web

The Tangled Web

1. Security in the World of Web Applications

   • History of the Web
     • GML
       • IBM's Generalized Markup Language
         • "this is a header", "this is a list"
       • SGML
         • Standard Generalized Markup Language
         • HTML
           • Focused on simplicity
           • Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly
           • HyperText Markup Language
           • HTTP
             • HyperText Transfer Protocol
             • Dedicated scheme for accessing HTML resources using TCP/IP, DNS and file pathes concepts
             • Tim's WWW Project
               • World Wide Web
               • 1991-1993
               • A browser that parsed HTML and allowed navigation from one page to another
               • Tim Berners-Lee
               • Mosaic Web Browser
                 • Netscape Navigator
                 • Spyglass Mosaic
                   • Microsoft Internet Explorer
       • 1960's
     • Microsoft XMLHttpRequest
       • Web 2.0
     • W3C - WWW Consortium
   • Risk Management
     • CWE
       • Homeland Security
       • Common Weakness Enumeration
       • "Provide a common language"
     • CVSS
       • Common Vulnerability Scoring System
         • method to quantify and score a vulnerability based on risk
     • probability * maximum loss = risk

2. Anatomy of the Web

   • URLs
   • HTTP
   • HTML
   • CSS
   • Browser Scripts
   • Doc Types
   • Plug-ins

3. Browser Security

   • Content Isolation
   • Origin Inheritance
   • Outside Same-Origin
   • Other Boundaries
   • Content Recognition
   • Rouge Scripts
   • Site Privileges

4. Future

   • New Security Features
   • Other Browser Mechanisms
   • Common Web Vulnerabilities

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