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The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws
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 o...more
Paperback, 722 pages
Published
October 1st 2007
by John Wiley & Sons
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This book is a little long winded and a bit dry, so based just on the writing of the book I would have given it two stars. However the book shines in that it has an unconventional perspective and it stands by this perspective. It is written as guide to attacking applications, not securing them. I thought that would be a gimmick and each chapter would be 1/5 how to hack and 4/5 how to defend, but no quite the opposite is true. I am not sure it is the greatest approach to learning the material, bu...more
Mar 09, 2009
Seth
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Dafydd Stuttard (more commonly known as portswigger) is not only an expert in the field of web application penetration testing, but also excels at conveying highly technical concepts with eloquence.
Loved the book. Maybe overdetailed in some parts, but it covers really lots and lots of things explained in a very good way :) a must-read for web application developers
Useful for scoping, but omits finer details for obvious reasons. Almost all sections have examples that you will never see in the wild. Says, "Hack The Planet" on the back, so it's embarassing to carry around. Otherwise, a must-read... more for web app developers than auditors, though.
Awesome book!
Good reference books exposes you to various parts of a web application
I never got a chance to finish this book.
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