Empirical Analysis of Web Attacks

The web applications are becoming more popular and complex in today's era of Internet. These on-line applications provide rich benefits along with risk to organization, brand and data. Malicious attackers continue to exploit vulnerabilities in applications in order to steal sensitive information. The outlines of this paper is to analyze web attacks in recent years that have compromised web applications, its data or its users. This paper includes the web attacks analysis from Website Hacking Incident Database (WHID) and other information security and news websites. Also, it is an effort to analyze various attacks on major categories of web sites which is a guide to developers to take respective appropriate preventive measures in future. The top web attacks have been identified and also the top vulnerable categories of web applications are analyzed.