Website Defacement Detector
It is undeniable that website has become an important element in the life of nowadays generation. As the website become more sophisticated, likewise the security threats that the website poses. One of them is website defacement in which unauthorized person changes the visual appearances of the websi...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Teknologi Petronas
2013
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| Online Access: | http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13603/1/Sharul_15139.pdf http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13603/ |
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| Summary: | It is undeniable that website has become an important element in the life of nowadays generation. As the website become more sophisticated, likewise the security threats that the website poses. One of them is website defacement in which unauthorized person changes the visual appearances of the website for various intention. Some are only for fun and hacking skill-testing, but worst case, it can be cause further severe security damages. It can be said that website defacement can causes security threats to a website and also can damage the reputation of the website owner. This is very bad especially for businesses-website because the website portray their public face. Usually, website administrator or website owner get the information about their website being deface too late, making public already see the messages or images on their defaced website which can humiliate and lower down their reputation. That is why, a website defacement detector is a must to be developed to monitor the website at a specific time interval and alert the website admin through email as soon as the system detected any unauthorized changes. Therefore, the target user for this application is the website admin and website owner. The approaches that will be implemented in this project are whether anomaly detection technique or hash tags comparison technique. The approach is not yet decided as this research study is yet to test on both approaches. Besides that this research study has conducted data collection such as interview, document studies and website defacement patterns observation. The results will help this research study to further develop a system that fulfills the requirements that a website admin or website owner might ask. |
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