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Hacker Web Exploitation Uncovered

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Black hats and white hats might both be attracted by this book. It is not written for the casual reader. You should already be a skilled programmer, and well versed in HTML and running a web server.

The gist of the book is essentially about breaking into a website. It describes common weaknesses in the writing of webpages. If these hook up to a back end SQL database, and they accept user input, then there might be a SQL injection attack. Where the attacker sits at a browser, goes to the vulnerable page, and tries to present text input that has appended SQL commands that she hopes will be executed by the database. Relatively rare, but dangerous when it happens.

Then there are Perl and PHP scripting attacks. Both languages are vulnerable to these. The book also explains cross site scripting [XSS]. Ingenious and nefarious attacks.

If you are a sysadmin and you've never encountered these ideas in detail before, the book can be an eyeopener.

I received the book in few days and in good condition. In my opinion, you can trust this seller.