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/Common Web Security Attacks and Their Impact
Common Web Security Attacks and Their Impact
Get an introduction to generating web-based attacks.
Introduction
Maintaining web security has become difficult for web developers and cybersecurity experts. Intruders try to breach web security and gain unauthorized access to web systems for many different purposes, such as :
To steal sensitive data
To disrupt competitors’ operations
To damage competitors’ reputations
To commit fraud for financial gain
To spread false news and propaganda
In order to avoid such harmful events, developers need to consider many constraints while developing a website.
Types of web security attacks
In the sections below, different types of web security attacks are described.
Distributed denial-of-service
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attack on a particular machine in which multiple unfamiliar systems with different IP addresses are deployed. These distributed systems are stimulated in such a way that legitimate traffic ...