Title: The web application hacker's handbook: finding and exploiting security flaws Author(s): Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto Publisher: Wiley Year: 2011 Edition: 2Language: English Pages: 914ISBN: 1118026470, 9781118026472, 1457123177, 9781457123177
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.
Table of contents :
Chapter 1. Web Application (In)securityChapter 2. Core Defense MechanismsChapter 3. Web Application TechnologiesChapter 4. Mapping the ApplicationChapter 5. Bypassing Client-Side ControlsChapter 6. Attacking AuthenticationChapter 7. Attacking Session ManagementChapter 8. Attacking Access ControlsChapter 9. Attacking Data StoresChapter 10. Attacking Back-End ComponentsChapter 11. Attacking Application LogicChapter 12. Attacking Users: Cross-Site ScriptingChapter 13. Attacking Users: Other TechniquesChapter 14. Automating Customized AttacksChapter 15. Exploiting Information DisclosureChapter 16. Attacking Native Compiled ApplicationsChapter 17. Attacking Application ArchitectureChapter 18. Attacking the Application ServerChapter 19. Finding Vulnerabilities in Source CodeChapter 20. A Web Application Hacker’s ToolkitChapter 21. A Web Application Hacker’s Methodology