HTTP Hacks

Abstract

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol or HTTP for short, is probably the most known protocol of the Internet. Today it is so dominant that plenty of people even think HTTP (or the WWW ) is the Internet. There are not only information sites, shopping portals, search engines, e-mail and forum services, but also office software, wikis, blogs, calendars, social networks, chat software, e-government applications and so on. The list could be extended as desired. Google even built a whole operating system that consist completely of web applications and data stored in the cloud (it depends on you if you like that or not). It should not be surprising that most attacks nowadays are aimed at web applications and that the web browser is the favorite attack tool. Enough reasons to have a deeper look at the security of the web.