Friday, March 20, 2009

World Wide Web(WWW):

The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in every-day speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global data communications system.
It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. In contrast, the Web is one of the services communicated via the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.
Viewing a Web page on the World Wide Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser, or by following a hyperlink to that page or resource. The Web browser then initiates a series of communication messages, behind the scenes, in order to fetch and display it.
The most common of all malware threats is SQL injection attacks against websites.[27] Through HTML and URIs the Web was vulnerable to attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS) that came with the introduction of JavaScript[28] and were exacerbated to some degree by Web 2.0 and Ajax web design that favors the use of scripts.[29] Today by one estimate, 70% of all websites are open to XSS attacks on their users.[30]

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