Title :
Blocking Java applets at the firewall
Author :
Martin, David M., Jr. ; Rajagopalan, Sivaramakrishnan ; Rubin, Aviel D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Boston Univ., MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper explores the problem of protecting a site on the Internet against hostile external Java applets while allowing trusted internal applets to run. With careful implementation, a site can be made resistant to current Java security weaknesses as well as those yet to be discovered. In addition, we describe a new attack on certain sophisticated firewalls that is most effectively realized as a Java applet
Keywords :
Internet; object-oriented languages; security of data; Internet site protection; Java applets blocking; Java security weaknesses; firewalls; hostile external Java applets; trusted internal applets; Computer bugs; Computer languages; Computer science; Internet; Java; Mirrors; Protection; Security; Storms; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Network and Distributed System Security, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7767-8
DOI :
10.1109/NDSS.1997.579215
