Hacking has quickly turned into a mature market and it has never been easier to initiate a hack with devastating consequences. This is reflected by the number of books and articles coming out every day on computer and network security. Every time you access a website that allows you to accomplish specific taskshack from online banking to shopping you risk being attacked and all your personal information hijacked.
Syngress just released Hacking Web Apps that focuses on eight groups of security weaknesses and vulnerabilities most commonly exploited by hackers and more importantly, it explains how to guard against such attacks. Author Mike Schema, a web application security developer at Qualys Inc., presents in each chapter examples of different hacks against web applications and appropriate countermeasures. Schema identifies vulnerabilities in the new HTML5 standard, cross-site scripting (XSS) and covers SQL injection attacks as well as data store manipulation.
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