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Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense
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by Stuart McClure, Saumil Shah, and Shreeraj Shah
Sales Rank: 304538
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Discount: 38 %
List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional August 18, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201761769
ISBN-13: 978-0201761764
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Info
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.
Back Cover Copy
"Both novice and seasoned readers will come away with an increased understanding of how Web hacking occurs and enhanced skill at developing defenses against such Web attacks. Technologies covered include Web languages and protocols, Web and database servers, payment systems and shopping carts, and critical vulnerabilities associated with URLs. This book is a virtual battle plan that will help you identify and eliminate threats that could take your Web site off line"
--From the Foreword by William C. Boni, Chief Information Security Officer, Motorola "Just because you have a firewall and IDS sensor does not mean you aresecure; this book shows you why."
--Lance Spitzner, Founder, The Honeynet Project Whether it's petty defacing or full-scale cyber robbery, hackers are moving to the Web along with everyone else. Organizations using Web-based business applications are increasingly at risk. Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense is a powerful guide to the latest information on Web attacks and defense. Security experts Stuart McClure (lead author of Hacking Exposed), Saumil Shah, and Shreeraj Shah present a broad range of Web attacks and defense.
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
Appendices include a listing of Web and database ports, cheat sheets for remote command execution, and source code disclosure techniques.
Web Hacking informs from the trenches. Experts show you how to connect the dots--how to put the stages of a Web hack together so you can best defend against them. Written for maximum brain absorption with unparalleled technical content and battle-tested analysis, Web Hacking will help you combat potentially costly security threats and attacks.
0201761769B07192002
Customer Reviews & Comments
So you heard all this hype on Web Hacking, and want to know more about this matter. Well, if you think about the web as an e-commerce platform, then just Buy 'Web Security, Privacy & Commerce' by Garfinkel and Spafford, an excellent and classic book. Are you interested in 'pure hacking'? I mean 'perl scripts', cross site and traversal attacks, hackers jargon, and all the related issues..... then buy 'Hacking Web Applications Exposed' by Scambray and Shema. Excellent book too, and excellent authors. But beware, it is not for newbies. You MUST have a lot of background to fully understand the attacks. Now, what about an easier generic book, covering the same issues as the others but in a step by step and kinder way.? A book to start from zero, but leading to understand all the currently related themes. Well, if this is what you want, then 'Web Hacking' is your book. It covers all that need to be covered in this area. In an easy and well structured way. The reading is very light and the authors 'break down' of the matter, makes the contents very intuitive. The book is structured into four main sections (covering the same areas as the previously referred books) : ** The E-commerce Playground ** URLs Unraveled ** How Do They Do It? ** Advanced Web Kung Fu It includes also, several interesting appendixes (specially useful the 'cheat sheet' appendix). A lot of simple case studies (of the kind 'Bob and Alice') are presented as well as some more technical analyses (Code Red, Nimda etc.) If I were to select a book as a reference for a first course on web security, 'Web Hacking' would be my choise. Definitively.
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