Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense

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Exposes complete methodologies showing the actual techniques and attacks. Shows countermeasures, tools, and eye-opening case studies. Covers the web commerce playground, describing web languages and protocols, web and database servers, and payment systems. Softcover.



Features include:

* Overview of the Web and what hackers go after

* Complete Web application security methodologies

* Detailed analysis of hack techniques

* Countermeasures

* What to do at development time to eliminate vulnerabilities

* New case studies and eye-opening attack scenarios

* Advanced Web hacking concepts, methodologies, and tools



"How Do They Do It?" sections show how and why different attacks succeed, including:

* Cyber graffiti and Web site defacements

* e-Shoplifting

* Database access and Web applications

* Java™ application servers; how to harden your Java™ Web Server

* Impersonation and session hijacking

* Buffer overflows, the most wicked of attacks

* Automated attack tools and worms