Week 12 – Summary

Web Services

Web Services are components that proved web communications using major protocols, such as TCP/IP over HTTPS and others, thus replacing middleware protocols. Some components can request other components as part of overall service. Developers must use certain web service components architecture standards, such as: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI to create consistent web components interaction. Web Services are vulnerable to attacks, such as: DDoS, Integrity Check, Enumeration, SQL Injection, firewall break through via open ports, etc.  Mitigation would include Web Filters, Packet filters, Proxies, IPS/IDS over certain web traffic and open ports, web components integrity check, use of cryptography; certain languages provide high web security such as XML Web Services platforms if built right way with all security in mind.

Question for the Class: What are web services languages considered to be more sophisticated than XML platform?

In the News:

Personal information for 100 million people was accessed by cyber-thieves between 2012 and the summer of 2015.  Twelve institutions were victims of the hacking, including JPMorgan, and asset manager Fidelity.

US prosecutors said they were expanding charges against two Israeli men, Gery Shalon and Ziv Orenstein, as well as a US citizen, Joshua Samuel Aaron.

Charges against the three men were expanded to include computer hacking and identity theft among 21 other counts.

The men allegedly manipulated stock prices by selling shares of companies to individuals whose contact information they had stolen. They then dumped their own shares, causing the price to fall.

The men were also charged with running an illegal payment processing business that they used to collect $18m (£11.9m) in fees.

Ref. Reading: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34782369