The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting

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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws By Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto

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The highly successful security book returns with a new edition, completely updatedWeb applications are the front door to most organizations, 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, framebusting, HTTP parameter pollution, hybrid file attacks, and more
• Features a companion web site 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 summarized 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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• Amazon Sales Rank: #19411 in Books
• Published on: 2011-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.17" h x 1.85" w x 7.36" l, 2.92 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 912 pages

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New technologies. New attack techniques. Start hacking.Web applications are everywhere, and they're insecure. Banks, retailers, and others have deployed millions of applications that are full of holes, allowing attackers to steal personal data, carry out fraud, and compromise other systems. This book shows you how they do it.
This fully updated edition contains the very latest attack techniques and countermeasures, showing you how to break into today's complex and highly functional applications. Roll up your sleeves and dig in.

• Discover how cloud architectures and social networking have added exploitable attack surfaces to applications
• Leverage the latest HTML features to deliver powerful cross-site scripting attacks
• Deliver new injection exploits, including XML external entity and HTTP parameter pollution attacks
• Learn how to break encrypted session tokens and other sensitive data found in cloud services
• Discover how technologies like HTML5, REST, CSS and JSON can be exploited to attack applications and compromise users
• Learn new techniques for automating attacksand dealing with CAPTCHAs and cross-site request forgery tokens
• Steal sensitive data across domains using seemingly harmless application functions and new browser features

Find help and resources at mdsec.net/wahh

• Source code for some of the scripts in the book
• Links to tools and other resources
• A checklist of tasks involved in most attacks
• Answers to the questions posed in each chapter
• Hundreds of interactive vulnerability labs

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
The Book That Keeps on Giving...
By Jason Haddix
There's a running joke we have on our assessment team about the Web Application Hackers Handbook. Every time we see a new technology, or have to deal with a one-off situation, we start doing research online only to find it was already referenced in WAHH somewhere. We've all read this book several times too, it's like Dafydd and Marcus sneak into our houses at night and add content...

Joking aside though, there is no other reference for web hacking as thorough or complete as WAHH.

With WAHH2 the authors added a significant amount content and rehashed existing chapters that were already deeply technical. The bonus in WAHH2 is its associated labs. Dafydd and Marcus have been giving a live WAHH training for years and have now moved the stellar CTF like challenges to the cloud. You can buy credits ($7 for 1hr) and move right along as you read the book (MDSec.net). When I say the labs are stellar, I mean it. The labs come almost straight from the class and start trivial and then get crazy. The injection labs were by far my favorite, housing 30-40 different injection types/variants