Extensibility in end-user network applications : a feature or a flaw?
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2011
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University of Cape Town
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The rise in global connectivity driven by user-demand is bringing about a wave of end-user interconnectivity applications. This, coupled with the improvements in software security that have forced a shift from syntactic to semantic attacks points at an every-growing likelihood of attacks targeting the human element. Literature predicts the extensibility of applications as presenting a growing threat, but the context of this threat beyond the web-browser model, remains unclear and uncharted. This work examines the possible threat extensibility poses in this developing context of greater enduser connectivity.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).
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Zimba, B. 2011. Extensibility in end-user network applications : a feature or a flaw?. University of Cape Town.