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The Internet is transforming its look, in a short span of time we have come very far from black and white web forms with plain buttons to responsive, colorful and appealing user interface elements. With the sudden rise in demand of web applications, developers are making full use of the power of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 to cater to their users on various platforms. There was never a need of classifying the ways in which these languages can be interconnected to each other as the size of the front end code base was relatively small and did not involve critical business logic. This thesis focuses on listing and defining all dependencies between HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 that will help developers better understand the interconnections within these languages. We also explore the present techniques available to a developer to make his code free of dependency related defects. We build a prototype tool, HJCDepend, based on our model, which aims at helping developers discover and remove defects early in the development cycle.
ContributorsVasugupta (Author) / Gary, Kevin (Thesis advisor) / Lindquist, Timothy (Committee member) / Bansal, Ajay (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
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As computers and the Internet have become integral to daily life, the potential gains from exploiting these resources have increased significantly. The global landscape is now rife with highly skilled wrongdoers seeking to steal from and disrupt society. In order to safeguard society and its infrastructure, a comprehensive approach to research is essential. This work aims to enhance security from three unique viewpoints by expanding the resources available to educators, users, and analysts. For educators, a capture the flag as-a-service was developed to support cybersecurity education. This service minimizes the skill and time needed to establish the infrastructure for hands-on hacking experiences for cybersecurity students. For users, a tool called CloakX was created to improve online anonymity. CloakX prevents the identification of browser extensions by employing both static and dynamic rewriting techniques, thwarting contemporary methods of detecting installed extensions and thus protecting user identity. Lastly, for cybersecurity analysts, a tool named Witcher was developed to automate the process of crawling and exercising web applications while identifying web injection vulnerabilities. Overall, these contributions serve to strengthen security education, bolster privacy protection for users, and facilitate vulnerability discovery for cybersecurity analysts.
ContributorsTrickel, Erik (Author) / Doupe, Adam (Thesis advisor) / Shoshitaishvili, Yan (Thesis advisor) / Bao, Tiffany (Committee member) / Wang, Ruoyu (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023