Understanding the Security of Free Content Websites by Analyzing their SSL Certificates

Alabduljabbar, Abdulrahman; Ma, Runyu; Choi, Soohyeon; Jang, Rhongho; Chen, Songqing; Mohaisen, Aziz

doi:10.1145/3494108.3522769

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“…This work provided a detailed correlation analysis for FCWs and PCWs with their different networking hosting patterns and security aspects. Security analysis on FCWs has been established previously by Alabduljabbar et al [6,7,8,9]. The cost of using FCWs has been investigated in [17,18,20,28].…”

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“…Free and Premium Websites. We use the dataset of Alabduljabbar et al [7,8,9]. The main criteria for selecting the sample were determined based on popularity, main language, and activities.…”

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“…Previous studies [9,10] reported that the FCWs tend to be riskier than PCWs in terms of user privacy and security features [5,7,8,9,10,11,19], although a clear understanding of what contributes to this risk is unclear. Given the popularity of these websites and the associated risk [7,8,9], we set out to investigate the network characteristics and the hosting patterns for these websites, including the network size, the cloud service provider (CSP), and the hosting country. We do so to identify the correlation between the security features of those websites and their characteristics in terms of hosting patterns.…”

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Do Content Management Systems Impact the Security of Free Content Websites?

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Free Content Websites (FCWs) are a significant element of the Web, and realizing their use is essential. This study analyzes FCWs worldwide by studying how they correlate with different network sizes, cloud service providers, and countries, depending on the type of content they offer. Additionally, we compare these findings with those of premium content websites (PCWs). Our analysis concluded that FCWs correlate mainly with networks of medium size, which are associated with a higher concentration of malicious websites. Moreover, we found a strong correlation between PCWs, cloud, and country hosting patterns. At the same time, some correlations were also observed concerning FCWs but with distinct patterns contrasting each other for both types. Our investigation contributes to comprehending the FCW ecosystem through correlation analysis, and the indicative results point toward controlling the potential risks caused by these sites through adequate segregation and filtering due to their concentration.

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Do Content Management Systems Impact the Security of Free Content Websites?

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Thomas

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Esta advertencia hace referencia a la falta de sistemas de seguridad y cifrado en la página para asegurar la interacción directa entre el servidor y el consumidor sin la posibilidad de interacción de otros hackers o servidores maliciosos que puedan obtener información (Ortega Martorell & Canino Gutiérrez, 2006). La utilización de los denominados certificados Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) se aplica para cifrar cualquier conexión entre el ordenador de un usuario y un sitio web (Alabduljabbar et al, 2022).…”

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La seguridad web en la comercialización turística online de destinos rurales: el caso de Extremadura

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Pasaco-Gonzalez

Sánchez-Vargas

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ReE

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La digitalización es una herramienta de desarrollo de destinos y productos turísticos. Esta tendencia adquiere relevancia en los últimos años por los nuevos procesos de comercialización y venta. Por un lado, los consumidores son un mercado cada vez más exigente y autónomo que busca información, rapidez y disponibilidad online en todo el proceso de toma de decisiones y disfrute del viaje. Por otro lado, empresas y destinos apuestan por líneas estratégicas de comercialización online con el objetivo de ampliar el mercado objetivo, automatizar los procesos y agilizar y facilitar la compra y venta. Además, la Covid-19 ha acelerado forzosamente este proceso de digitalización y los usuarios cada vez utilizan más las plataformas online en sus viajes. Dentro de este proceso comercial de digitalización, los proveedores de servicios turísticos deben apostar por la seguridad para garantizar un servicio bueno y de calidad. A través de un estudio del caso y un análisis clúster de las agencias de viajes en Extremadura, como destino rural, se realiza una aproximación de la seguridad web de las principales agencias de viajes, grupos de gestión y grupos comerciales. El objetivo principal es evaluar la capacidad real de comercialización de destinos rurales a través de plataformas online teniendo en cuenta la seguridad web para los usuarios. Los resultados muestran una tendencia a la centralización de la gestión web en grupos de gestión o entidades de gestión online para asegurar la privacidad en el proceso de compra.

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“…Following this train of thought, there emerges a discernible concern and an overriding need to identify and eliminate materials that infringe copyright in the IoE, through a more efficient and automated process [12,13,15,16]. According to [17,18], in the absence of such measures, the ramifications of these infringements could surpass the mere financial losses currently faced by the industry. These implications include the ethical degradation of work, the introduction of biases in professional training and cultural sectors, a decline in the quality of new creations, and the potential for highly sought-after works to be used as bait in cyber attacks, encompassing malware, phishing, scams, and electronic fraud.…”

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Methodological Approach for Identifying Websites with Infringing Content via Text Transformers and Dense Neural Networks

Hernandez-Suarez,

Sanchez-Perez,

Toscano-Medina

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The rapid evolution of the Internet of Everything (IoE) has significantly enhanced global connectivity and multimedia content sharing, simultaneously escalating the unauthorized distribution of multimedia content, posing risks to intellectual property rights. In 2022 alone, about 130 billion accesses to potentially non-compliant websites were recorded, underscoring the challenges for industries reliant on copyright-protected assets. Amidst prevailing uncertainties and the need for technical and AI-integrated solutions, this study introduces two pivotal contributions. First, it establishes a novel taxonomy aimed at safeguarding and identifying IoE-based content infringements. Second, it proposes an innovative architecture combining IoE components with automated sensors to compile a dataset reflective of potential copyright breaches. This dataset is analyzed using a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers-based advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm, further fine-tuned by a dense neural network (DNN), achieving a remarkable 98.71% accuracy in pinpointing websites that violate copyright.

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Understanding the Security of Free Content Websites by Analyzing their SSL Certificates

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Do Content Management Systems Impact the Security of Free Content Websites?

Do Content Management Systems Impact the Security of Free Content Websites?

La seguridad web en la comercialización turística online de destinos rurales: el caso de Extremadura

Methodological Approach for Identifying Websites with Infringing Content via Text Transformers and Dense Neural Networks

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