Learn how web testing can help prepare for and prevent attacks on web applications
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HistoryVery nice book, He covers topics that i never even thought of. Highly recommended
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I recently finished reading How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services by Mike Andrews and James A. Whittaker. I, like many of you, develop web software for a living. I've always taken security seriously and occasionally sneered when I ran across examples of common mistakes. Having said that, this book was an eye opener for me. The book covers common exploits such as bypassing...
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You can't really read a book like this. You read a few pages and prop the book up with a cookbook holder and start typing in the examples. There were a couple I could not duplicate, but almost everything worked as the authors said it would. Great book, or maybe it would be better to say, great tool! The fun starts with chapter 2 and these folks do not spend a lot of time on reconnaisance. They know how to break web software...
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This is a focussed book with a single aim; to help you find and correct common vulnerabilities in web-based applications and website software. Above all, this is a book to be used. The authors take a practical approach to each area of consideration, and the chapters are well structured to make it easy for you to get right to work. For each area they provide an informative overview followed by discussion of the vulnerabilities...
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If you write external-facing web apps, just accept the fact that someone will try to hack them. The best you can do is to be aware of the different ways that web apps can be broken, and then use those techniques in your testing. Better you find them first before "they" do. I got a review copy of How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services by Mike Andrews and James A. Whittaker...
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