Context: Web applications are trusted by billions of users for performing day-to-day activities.
Accessibility, availability and omnipresence of web applications have made them a prime …

Various system metrics have been proposed for measuring the quality of computer-based
systems, such as dependability and security metrics for estimating their performance and …

Embedded devices are becoming more widespread, interconnected, and web-enabled than
ever. However, recent studies showed that embedded devices are far from being secure …

Black-box web application vulnerability scanners attempt to automatically identify
vulnerabilities in web applications without access to the source code. However, they do so …

Identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring security functionality by security testing is a widely
applied measure to evaluate and improve the security of software. Due to the openness of …

Identifying security vulnerabilities in software is a critical task that requires significant human
effort. Currently, vulnerability discovery is often the responsibility of software testers before …

This paper deals with an original approach to automate Model-Based Vulnerability Testing
(MBVT) for Web applications, which aims at improving the accuracy and precision of …

Black-box web vulnerability scanners are a popular choice for finding security vulnerabilities
in web applications in an automated fashion. These tools operate in a point-and-shoot …

Reverse engineering is a complex process essential to software-security tasks such as
vulnerability discovery and malware analysis. Significant research and engineering effort …

Web applications have been a significant target for successful security breaches in the last
few years. They are currently secured, as a primary method, by searching for their …