Web security testing cookbook : systematic techniques to find problems fast / Paco Hope and Ben Walther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hope, Paco.

Contributor:

Walther, Ben.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Validation.

Computer software.

Web sites--Security measures.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing : O'Reilly, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Among the tests you perform on web applications, security testing is perhaps the most important, yet it's often the most neglected. The recipes in the Web Security Testing Cookbook demonstrate how developers and testers can check for the most common web security issues, while conducting unit tests, regression tests, or exploratory tests. Unlike ad hoc security assessments, these recipes are repeatable, concise, and systematic-perfect for integrating into your regular test suite. Recipes cover the basics from observing messages between clients and servers to multi-phas

Contents:

Installing some free tools

Basic observation

Web-oriented data encoding

Tampering with input

Automated bulk scanning

Automating specific tasks with cURL

Automating with LibWWWPerl

Seeking design flaws

Attacking AJAX

Manipulating sessions

Multifaceted tests.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 4, 2013).

ISBN:

9781306816199

130681619X

9780596803278

0596803273

9780596554033

0596554036

OCLC:

609840997