Innocent Code: A Security Wake-up Call for Web Programmers

Innocent Code: A Security Wake-up Call for Web Programmers

by SverreH.Huseby (Author)

Synopsis

  • This concise and practical book shows where code vulnerabilities lie-without delving into the specifics of each system architecture, programming or scripting language, or application-and how best to fix them
  • Based on real-world situations taken from the author's experiences of tracking coding mistakes at major financial institutions
  • Covers SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting, data manipulation in order to bypass authorization, and other attacks that work because of missing pieces of code
  • Shows developers how to change their mindset from Web site construction to Web site destruction in order to find dangerous code

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 246
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 09 Dec 2003

ISBN 10: 0470857447
ISBN 13: 9780470857441

Media Reviews
the security book that all web developers need to read sound advice ignore at peril (Tech Book Report, January 2004)

achieves its aims admirably (PC Utilities, April 2004)

should be required reading for web developers (about.com, March 2004)

if you are a web techie you will love this book, I did (Infosecurity Today, July 04)

Author Bio
Sverre Huseby runs his own company selling courses and consultancy services in Web application security. He's an active participant on webappsec mail forum.