Our (in)Secure Web: Understanding Update Behavior of Websites and Its Impact on Security

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Software updates take an essential role in keeping IT environments secure. If service providers delay or do not install updates, it can cause unwanted security implications for their environments. This paper conducts a large-scale measurement study of the update behavior of websites and their utilized software stacks. Across 18 months, we analyze over 5.6M websites and 246 distinct client- and server-side software distributions. We found that almost all analyzed sites use outdated software.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.35097/1552
Metadata Access https://www.radar-service.eu/oai/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite&identifier=10.35097/1552
Provenance
Creator Demir, Nurullah; Urban, Tobias; Wittek, Kevin; Pohlmann, Norbert
Publisher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Contributor RADAR
Publication Year 2023
Rights Open Access; Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/x-tar
Discipline Computer Science; Computer Science, Electrical and System Engineering; Engineering Sciences