The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws |
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Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto
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Pages: 768 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0470170778
Pub: John Wiley & Sons
Pub date: 2007-10-19
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28271
Reader Reviews:
Very Good (0/0 people found this helpful)
Perhaps not as much detail as I was looking for, but a good starting point for those with little experience in the area.
An Excellent Read! (1/1 people found this helpful)
If you have already purchased this book then you are in a very good way to find out truths and lies on Web Hacking. This book touches almost all topics that regard Web Application security and exploit methods. So far, along with Hacking Exposed, this book has been the perfect companion to me for threat identification (Risk Analysis), hardening and creating proper Security Architectures. Keep in mind that if you are into Security his book by itself is not enough. If you are into Web Applications though, this book is everything you need. Code Injections, Path Traversals, Session attacks, XSS are all hot and popular attack methods nowadays; all of them are thoroughly covered in this book's pages. 5 stars from me.
Good read (3/3 people found this helpful)
This book is quite thick but it covers just about any aspect of web application security that one could possibly imagine. It provides a very readable content without diving into too much technical detail. Rather than focusing on a single technology, it covers various web frameworks and their specific vulnerabilities. Perhaps the most valuable part of the book is the final chapter in which an excellent methodology checklist is provided which allows one to verify security of a given web application step by step. After having finished this book I came to realize how valuable awareness of security issues is to the long term success of a give web application which must not only perform well but remain robust and stable to any and all security attacks.
The Best Web Application Security Book To Date (6/7 people found this helpful)
The Web Application Hackers Handbook continues the tradition of the other books in the "Hackers Handbook" series in being specifically written for people who are serious about testing and protecting the security of their network and applications.
As a full time Application tester most of the books I've read have been of little use, typically providing page filler examples of vulnerabilities and techniques that have been and gone or have offered little in the way of new information. This book however is bang up to date and teaches assessment techniques that will still be current for a long time to come.
If you're hoping to pursue a career in security, need the best reference available, or are trying to get to grips with the threats posed to your web application, you should buy this book.
At our organisation all of our technical staff have a copy and have all found it useful.
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