This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real–world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e–commerce and other web applications. The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms, injecting code, exploiting logic flaws and compromising other users. Because every web application is different, attacking them entails bringing to bear various general principles, techniques and experience in an imaginative way. The most successful hackers go beyond this, and find ways to automate their bespoke attacks. This handbook describes a proven methodology that combines the virtues of human intelligence and computerized brute force, often with devastating results. The authors are professional penetration testers who have been involved in web application security for nearly a decade. They have presented training courses at the Black Hat security conferences throughout the world. Under the alias "PortSwigger", Dafydd developed the popular Burp Suite of web application hack tools.
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"If you have an interest in web application security, I would highly recommend picking up a copy of this book, especially if you’re interested in being able to audit applications for vulnerabilities". — Robert Wesley McGrew, McGrew Security
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Hack the planet Web applications are everywhere, and they′re insecure. Banks, retailers, and others have deployed millions of applications that are full of holes, allowing attackers to steal personal data, carry out fraud, and compromise other systems. This innovative book shows you how they do it. This is hands–on stuff. The authors, recognized experts in security testing, take a practical approach, showing you the detailed steps involved in finding and exploiting security flaws in web applications. You will learn to: Defeat an application′s core defense mechanisms and gain unauthorized access, even to the most apparently secure applications Map attack surfaces and recognize potential entry points Break client–side controls implemented within HTML, Java®, ActiveX®, and Flash® Uncover subtle logic flaws that leave applications exposed Use automation to speed up your attacks, with devastating results Delve into source code and spot common vulnerabilities in languages like C#, Java, and PHP Know your enemy To defend an application, you must first know its weaknesses. If you design or maintain web applications, this book will arm you with the protective measures you need to prevent all of the attacks described. If you′re a developer, it will show you exactly where and how to strengthen your defenses. Additional resources online at www.wiley.com/go/webhacker Source code for scripts in this book Links to tools and resources Checklist of tasks involved in attacking applications Answers to the questions posed in each chapter A hacking challenge prepared by the authors
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By Kiffin Gish
Format:Paperback
This book is quite thick but it covers just about any aspect of web application security that one could possibly imagine. It provides a very readable content without diving into too much technical detail. Rather than focusing on a single technology, it covers various web frameworks and their specific vulnerabilities. Perhaps the most valuable part of the book is the final chapter in which an excellent methodology checklist is provided which allows one to verify security of a given web application step by step. After having finished this book I came to realize how valuable awareness of security issues is to the long term success of a give web application which must not only perform well but remain robust and stable to any and all security attacks.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you have already purchased this book then you are in a very good way to find out truths and lies on Web Application penetration testing. This book touches almost all topics that regard Web Application security and attack vectors/methods (my only objection is the lack of Web Services security).
Since there is no book that does-it-all, following the provided references is mandatory to successfully digest the entire information. Along with Andreu's, this is one of the books that will stay for long as an asset in your arsenal and operate as an day-to-day reference on Web Application pentesting.
Since there is no book that does-it-all, following the provided references is mandatory to successfully digest the entire information. Along with Andreu's, this is one of the books that will stay for long as an asset in your arsenal and operate as an day-to-day reference on Web Application pentesting.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Web Application Hackers Handbook continues the tradition of the other books in the "Hackers Handbook" series in being specifically written for people who are serious about testing and protecting the security of their network and applications.
As a full time Application tester most of the books I've read have been of little use, typically providing page filler examples of vulnerabilities and techniques that have been and gone or have offered little in the way of new information. This book however is bang up to date and teaches assessment techniques that will still be current for a long time to come.
If you're hoping to pursue a career in security, need the best reference available, or are trying to get to grips with the threats posed to your web application, you should buy this book.
At our organisation all of our technical staff have a copy and have all found it useful.
As a full time Application tester most of the books I've read have been of little use, typically providing page filler examples of vulnerabilities and techniques that have been and gone or have offered little in the way of new information. This book however is bang up to date and teaches assessment techniques that will still be current for a long time to come.
If you're hoping to pursue a career in security, need the best reference available, or are trying to get to grips with the threats posed to your web application, you should buy this book.
At our organisation all of our technical staff have a copy and have all found it useful.
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I think it doesn't have a very good chapter about SQLi (teaching sqlmap for example), but it covers almost everything you will need to test on a webapp.
It's somewhat focused in Burp Suite, a software made (I believe) by the authors of the book. But that shouldn't be a problem because it's the software you are probably going to use, as it is the less expensive and most stable software of the kind.
It's somewhat focused in Burp Suite, a software made (I believe) by the authors of the book. But that shouldn't be a problem because it's the software you are probably going to use, as it is the less expensive and most stable software of the kind.
By Sam Hartley
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I don't think there is another book that comes close to the Web Application Hackers Handbook at the moment. This book is well thought out and is both great to read from front to back on your first time through and then to use as a reference book later on.
I have heard it referred to as the manual for Burp Suite Pro but as Burp Suite Pro should be in every web pen testers toolkit I don't think that is a bad thing. It does cover other tools too but the most important part is that it helps you understand what goes wrong with web apps and how to discover and exploit their flaws, this is much more important for web application security testing than knowing how to click 'go' on an automated scanner.
I am looking forward to receiving the second edition and trying out the labs, it is not often in day-to-day pentesting that you get to practice all the techniques discussed in the book so the labs are a welcome edition.
I have heard it referred to as the manual for Burp Suite Pro but as Burp Suite Pro should be in every web pen testers toolkit I don't think that is a bad thing. It does cover other tools too but the most important part is that it helps you understand what goes wrong with web apps and how to discover and exploit their flaws, this is much more important for web application security testing than knowing how to click 'go' on an automated scanner.
I am looking forward to receiving the second edition and trying out the labs, it is not often in day-to-day pentesting that you get to practice all the techniques discussed in the book so the labs are a welcome edition.
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