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Web Application Attacks Learning Guide

This guide explains how Web application attacks occur, identifies Web application attacks, and provides Web application security tools and tactics to protect against them.

Published: 08 May 2006
From buffer-overflows to SQL injection, hackers have various techniques at their disposal to attack Web applications. This guide explains how Web application attacks occur, identifies common and obscure Web application attacks, and provides Web application security tools and tactics to protect against them. As a bonus, this learning guide is also available as a PDF download.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
   Introduction to Web application attacks
   Buffer-overflow attacks
   Cross-site scripting attacks
   SQL injection attacks
   Denial-of-service attacks
   Other application attacks
   Web application security strategies
   More security learning resources
   Security IT Downloads

  Introduction to Web application attacks  Return to Table of Contents
  • Article: Spyware, application attacks to be biggest 2006 threats
  • Quiz: Web application threats and vulnerabilities
  • Technical paper: Know your enemy: Why your Web site is at risk, part 1
  • Technical paper: Know your enemy: Why your Web site is at risk, part 2

  Buffer-overflow attacks  Return to Table of Contents
  Cross-site scripting  Return to Table of Contents

  SQL Injection attacks  Return to Table of Contents

  • Glossary definition: SQL injection
  • Article: Automated SQL Injections: What your enterprise needs to know, Part 1
  • Article: Automated SQL Injections: What your enterprise needs to know, Part 2
  • Article: Raising risk prospects with a new SQL injection threat
  • Book chapter: Under Siege: How SQL Server is Hacked
  • Expert advice: Authenticating Web applications to SQL
  • Technical tip: Preventing SQL Injections
  • Technical tip: Defense tactics for SQL injection attacks
  • Technical tip: Automate SQL injection testing
  • Technical tip: Don't hide sensitive information in hidden form fields
  Denial-of-service  Return to Table of Contents
  Other application attacks  Return to Table of Contents

  Web application security strategies  Return to Table of Contents

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