Securing PHP web applications

Tricia Ballad; Addison-Wesley 2009

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PHP is one area that really needs work when it comes to security. Its wide spread implementation has lead to numerous security concerns. In the last year we have seen several books on the topic. I can only hope that those that write PHP will take the time to read what is available, including this book. Too many times as a have I heard for customers/programmers say that security is not their problem… let the Sys. Admin’s take care of that…. Other PHP books is O’Reilly’s Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett and Pro PHP Security by Chris Snyder and Michael Southwell

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Chained exploits: advanced hacking attacks from start to finish

Andrew Whitaker; Addison-Wesley 2009

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Just got my hands on this book. To be honest I’m surprised a book like this took so long to make it to print. As a Linux user I chain commands together through something called bash scripting. So why wouldn’t crackers be doing the same thing. Lets be realistic, most crackers are automating their attacks and they’ve been doing this for a long time. So isn’t chaining various attacks together just good sense? I mean from the perspective of the bad guys.

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