D.C. It seems that they had a lot of interest in Web security, that one of their editors had seem my 50 Ways posting, and that they wanted me to give a presentation on 50 ways to attack the Web. With only a week before the conference and other work to do, I was now faced with coming up with 50 real attacks that could be used against the Web. So I decided to move the other article I was working on to January and make this month's article coincide with the 50 Ways talk. There are claims of about ten million regular users, and many sites now claim to process more than 100,000 requests per day. The Web is comprised of a highly distributed set of tens of thousands of information servers , an unknown number of freely available browsers , and the Internet which facilitates its operation.
Nobody owns the Web.
Individual servers and browsers are owned by anyone who wants to make them available or use them. When a request is made, the server either provides the document or sends back an appropriate error response. The net effect is a giant database that can be moved through by pressing buttons. The trick to getting people to access your Web site is getting other Web sites to point to your URLs and to advertise your URLs to the network through whatever means. If this seems overly simple, it's not.