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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook : Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws by Stuttard, Dafydd & Pinto, Marcus is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e-commerce and other web applications. The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms, injecting code, exploiting logic flaws and compromising other users. Because every web application is different, attacking them entails bringing to bear various general principles, techniques and experience in an imaginative way. The most successful hackers go beyond this, and find ways to automate their bespoke attacks. This handbook describes a proven methodology that combines the virtues of human intelligence and computerized brute force, often with devastating results. The authors are professional penetration testers who have been involved in web application security for nearly a decade. They have presented training courses at the Black Hat security conferences throughout the wor

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

Author

Stuttard, Dafydd & Pinto, Marcus

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781118079614

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Engineering, Stem

Rating

4.18 / 5 (422 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14