Publisher's 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
