The Web Application Hacker's Handbook by Dafydd Stuttard

The Web Application Hacker's Handbook by Dafydd Stuttard

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.

Dafydd Stuttard is a Principal Security Consultant at Next Generation Security Software, where he leads the web application security competency. He has nine years' experience in security consulting and specializes in the penetration testing of web applications and compiled software. Dafydd has worked with numerous banks, retailers, and other enterprises to help secure their web applications, and has provided security consulting to several software manufacturers and governments to help secure their compiled software. Dafydd is an accomplished programmer in several languages, and his interests include developing tools to facilitate all kinds of software security testing. Dafydd has developed and presented training courses at the Black Hat security conferences around the world. Under the alias "PortSwigger," Dafydd created the popular Burp Suite of web application hacking tools. Dafydd holds master's and doctorate degrees in philosophy from the University of Oxford. Marcus Pinto is a Principal Security Consultant at Next Generation Security Software, where he leads the database competency development team, and has lead the development of NGS' primary training courses. He has eight years' experience in security consulting and specializes in penetration testing of web applications and supporting architectures. Marcus has worked with numerous banks, retailers, and other enterprises to help secure their web applications, and has provided security consulting to the development projects of several security-critical applications. He has worked extensively with large-scale web application deployments in the financial services industry. Marcus has developed and presented database and web application training courses at the Black Hat and other security conferences around the world. Marcus holds a master's degree in physics from the University of Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9780470170779
ISBN 10	0470170778
Title	The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
Author	Dafydd Stuttard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2007-10-19
Number of pages	768
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