EVALUATION OF MOST VISITED WEB SITES IN TURKEY IN ASPECTS OF STRUCTURE AND SECURITY

Applications on World Wide Web have made our daily lives easier with their basic and fast access, neglecting time and place, they have become indispensable. It made Web applications a popular target for malevolent users and increased web security risk. In this study web penetration test which is indispensable for web security and threating risks for web security are mentioned. In Turkey, 60 of the most visited sites were identified in five different categories scanned as an ordinary user to consider a safety assessment of the general situation of the websites. For the review, large sites in news sites, e-commerce, government, universities and other categories have been selected that are thought to have strong security infrastructure. The knowledge about these sites such as used technologies and infrastructure which considers as vulnerability of sites and can be obtained by the ordinal person who uses penetration tests has been investigated in this study. As a result of the research, operating system information and web server information from 62% and 87% of the reviewed sites were identified respectively. Medium and low degree vulnerabilities were found in all scanned websites. With the vulnerability screening tests, weakness map revealed and information about the most identified weaknesses was given.