Web Security for Developers: Real Threats, Practical Defense by Malcolm McDonald

Web Security for Developers will teach you how your websites are vulnerable to attack and how to protect them. Each chapter breaks down a major security vulnerability and explores a real-world attack, coupled with plenty of code to show you both the vulnerability and the fix.

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You’ll learn how to:

  • Protect against SQL injection attacks, malicious JavaScript, and cross-site request forgery
  • Add authentication and shape access control to protect accounts
  • Lock down user accounts to prevent attacks that rely on guessing passwords, stealing sessions, or escalating privileges
  • Implement encryption
  • Manage vulnerabilities in legacy code
  • Prevent information leaks that disclose vulnerabilities
  • Mitigate advanced attacks like Malvertising and Denial-of-Service
Year: 2020
Edition: 1
Publisher: No Starch Press | Random House LCC US
Language: English
Pages: 216
ISBN 10: 1593279949
ISBN 13: 9781593279943

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