The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws
by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto
from Wiley

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Good book
  This was my first web application security book. I've been reading online blogs and web-sites about web security for a while, and I've been waiting for this book to come out. Because of the lack of web security books on the market. But I am impressed with this book. It covers just about everything and shows the reader how hackers exploit web applications in a multitude of ways. This will definately help me secure my own websites and I'm already practicing a lot of what I've learned in this book for security... more info

• More than just words!
  This is an excellent book. Many books of this nature leave you wanting. They talk in complicated jargon, excite you about learning new concepts, and then leave you hanging with no real application of what you are learning. This is not the case with This book.
  This book is excellent for both the beginner and the advanced! Plenty of real examples! Walks the beginner through the concepts of foot printing. It explains the technologies and then for the advanced it talks about creating custom code for each... more info

• A Truely Excellent Resource for any Professional Web Hacker!
  If you do any type of professional Web Application Assessments then this is your bible. I have read many books on web app assessments and perform many Web Application Assessments for many large companies and government agencies and this is an excellent resource. I use Dafydd's Burp Suite and I can not say enough about it. If you are serious about Web Application security then this is a must read. Thanks to Dafydd and Marcus for a great book.
  Kevin

• An excellent thorough resource for web application security
  This is a great read for anyone interested in the security of modern web applications. It covers the hacking process from mapping the attack surface to exploiting input validation, access control, session management, and authentication vulnerabilities using real-world examples and diagrams. There is an in-depth 100pg chapter on injecting code(e.g. SQL, OS, script, etc injection) and a 95pg chapter on attacking other users(e.g. XSS, request forgery, etc attacks). There is information about bypassing common... more info

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