Web App Hacking (Hackers Handbook)

Web App Hacking
(Hackers Handbook)

Description:

The highly successful security book returns with a new edition, completely updatedWeb applications are the front door to most organisations, exposing them to attacks that may disclose personal information, execute fraudulent transactions, or compromise ordinary users. This practical book has been completely updated and revised to discuss the latest step-by-step techniques for attacking and defending the range of ever-evolving web applications. You'll explore the various new technologies employed in web applications that have appeared since the first edition and review the new attack techniques that have been developed, particularly in relation to the client side.

• Reveals how to overcome the new technologies and techniques aimed at defending web applications against attacks that have appeared since the previous edition
• Discusses new remoting frameworks, HTML5, cross-domain integration techniques, UI redress, frame busting, HTTP parameter pollution, hybrid file attacks, and more
• Features a companion website hosted by the authors that allows readers to try out the attacks described gives answers to the questions that are posed at the end of each chapter and provides a summarised methodology and checklist of tasks

Focusing on the areas of web application security where things have changed in recent years, this book is the most current resource on the critical topic of discovering, exploiting, and preventing web application security flaws...

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