Pearson publishes How to Break Web Software

NEW BOOK!

How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services
By Mike Andrews, James Whittaker

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Rigorously test and improve the security of all your Web software! 

 It's as certain as death and taxes: hackers will mercilessly attack your Web sites, applications,
and services. If you're vulnerable, you'd better discover these attacks yourself, before the black
hats do. Now, there's a definitive, hands-on guide to security-testing any Web-based software: How
to Break Web Software. 

 In this book, two renowned experts address every category of Web software exploit: attacks on
clients, servers, state, user inputs, and more. You'll master powerful attack tools and techniques
as you uncover dozens of crucial, widely exploited flaws in Web architecture and coding. The
authors reveal where to look for potential threats and attack vectors, how to rigorously test for
each of them, and how to mitigate the problems you find. Coverage includes 

    Client vulnerabilities, including attacks on client-side validation

    State-based attacks: hidden fields, CGI parameters, cookie poisoning, URL jumping, and session
hijacking

    Attacks on user-supplied inputs: cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and directory traversal

    Language- and technology-based attacks: buffer overflows, canonicalization, and NULL string
attacks

    Server attacks: SQL Injection with stored procedures, command injection, and server
fingerprinting

    Cryptography, privacy, and attacks on Web services

 

Your Web software is mission-critical it can't be compromised. Whether you're a developer, tester,
QA specialist, or IT manager, this book will help you protect that software systematically.

 

Companion CD contains full source code for one testing tool you can modify and extend, free Web
security testing tools, and complete code from a flawed Web site designed to give you hands-on
practice in identifying security holes.