Attacking Web Services: The Next Generation Of Vulnerable Enterprise Apps

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Presented at Blackhat USA 2005 by

Scott Stender

Web Services represent a new and unexplored set of security-sensitive technologies that have been widely deployed by large companies, governments, financial institutions, and in consumer applications.   Unfortunately, the attributes that make web services attractive, such as their ease of use, platform independence, use of HTTP and powerful functionality, also make them a great target for attack.