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Item DetLogic: A black-box approach for detecting logic vulnerabilities in web applications(Academic Press, 2018) Deepa, G.; Santhi Thilagam, P.S.; Praseed, A.; Pais, A.R.Web applications are subject to attacks by malicious users owing to the fact that the applications are implemented by software developers with insufficient knowledge about secure programming. The implementation flaws arising due to insecure coding practices allow attackers to exploit the application in order to perform adverse actions leading to undesirable consequences. These flaws can be categorized into injection and logic flaws. As large number of tools and solutions are available for addressing injection flaws, the focus of the attackers is shifting towards exploitation of logic flaws. The logic flaws allow attackers to compromise the application-specific functionality against the expectations of the stakeholders, and hence it is important to identify these flaws in order to avoid exploitation. Therefore, a prototype called DetLogic is developed for detecting different types of logic vulnerabilities such as parameter manipulation, access-control, and workflow bypass vulnerabilities in web applications. DetLogic employs black-box approach, and models the intended behavior of the application as an annotated finite state machine, which is subsequently used for deriving constraints related to input parameters, access-control, and workflows. The derived constraints are violated for simulating attack vectors to identify the vulnerabilities. DetLogic is evaluated against benchmark applications and is found to work effectively. © 2018 Elsevier LtdItem Vulnerability Testing of RESTful APIs Against Application Layer DDoS Attacks(Science and Information Organization, 2025) Sivakumar, K.; Santhi Thilagam, P.S.In recent years, modern mobile, web applications are shifting from monolithic application to microservice based application because of the issues such as scalability and ease of maintenance.These services are exposed to the clients through Application programming interface (API). APIs are built, integrated and deployed quickly.The very nature of APIs directly interact with backend server, the security is paramount important for CAP. Denial of service attacks are more serious attack which denies service to legitimate request. Rate limiting policies are used to stop the API DoS attacks. But by passing rate limit or flooding attack overload the backend server. Even sophisticated attack using http/2 multiplexing with multiple clients leads severe disruptions of service. This research shows that how sophisticated multi client attack on high workload end point leads to a dos attack. © (2025), (Science and Information Organization). All rights reserved.