328 Pages
by
Auerbach Publications
328 Pages
by
Auerbach Publications
328 Pages
by
Auerbach Publications
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The huge proliferation of security vulnerability exploits, worms, and viruses place an incredible drain on both cost and confidence for manufacturers and consumers. The release of trustworthy code requires a specific set of skills and techniques, but this information is often dispersed and decentralized, encrypted in its own jargon and terminology, and can take a colossal amount of time and data... Read more
Introduction, Security Vocabulary, Software Testing and Changes in the Security Landscape, All Trust Is Misplaced, Security Testing Considerations, Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment Processes, Personas and Testing, Security Test Planning, Sample Security Considerations, Vulnerability Case Study - Brute Force Browsing, Vulnerability Case Study - Buffer Overruns, Vulnerability Case Study - Cookie Tampering, Vulnerability Case Study: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Vulnerability Case Study: Denial of Service/Distributed Denial of Service, Vulnerability Case Study: Format String Vulnerabilities, Vulnerability Case Study: Integer Overflows and Underflows, Vulnerability Case Study: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks, Vulnerability Case Study - Password Cracking, Vulnerability Case Study - Session Hijacking, Vulnerability Case Study - Spoofing Attacks, Vulnerability Case Study - SQL Injection, Fuzz Testing, Background - Cryptography, Background - Firewalls, Background - OSI Network Model, Background - Proxy Servers, Background - TCP/IP and Other Networking Protocols, Background - Test Case Outlining (TCO), Additional Sources of Information, Index
Biography
van der Linden, Maura A.
