The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws

Web Application (In)security

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by well-meaning individuals who simply lack the knowledge and experience

to identify where security problems may arise.

Rapidly Evolving Threat Profile

As a result of its relative immaturity, research into web application attacks and

defenses is a thriving area in which new concepts and threats are conceived at

a faster rate than is now the case for older technologies. A development team

that begins a project with a complete knowledge of current threats may well

have lost this status by the time the application is completed and deployed.