Novel Approaches to Identify and Prevent Cyber Attacks in Web

Abstract

Security is the biggest challenging approach in today’s internet accessible technologies like, mobile phones, webmail, instant messaging services, and removable storage media. Internet access has given the ability to easily carry and handle the large amounts of data. With the growing technologies, the usage of internet increases along with the threats/data breaches like view or modify the confidential data by an unauthorized entities. Though the technology increases, there is no guarantee for the overall security. Every web application contains vulnerabilities and it is the most crucial area for the intruders to place cyber attacks on it. These attacks are very harmful for the society. They involve creating financial theft, data threats, blackmailing, resource upholding and many more. This paper provides the approaches to identify, detect and taking preventive measures for the eradication of attacks. For this available tools and scanners can also be used in the present world scenario. SQL injection, DNS attacks and DoS attacks are emphasized towards implementation since the risk encountered is more in such attacks.