November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 45m
English
Content preview from Alice and Bob Learn Application Security
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APPENDIX AResources
Introduction
- 1. Verizon Breach Report 2016, 2017, 2018
Chapter 1: Security Fundamentals
- 2. “There are two types of companies: those that have been breached and those that don't know they've been breached yet.”
time.com/3404330/home-depot-hack - 3. “Between 30 percent to 70 percent of the code in applications come from third parties.”
www.infoworld.com/article/2626167/third-party-code-putting-companies-at-risk.html - 4. Supply chain attack example:
www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk-en/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/hacker-infects-node-js-package-to-steal-from-bitcoin-wallets
Chapter 2: Security Requirements
- 5. “Injection” vulnerability and has been widely recognized by security professionals as the #1 threat to secure software:
www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10-2017_A1-Injection - 6. Output encoding and preventing XSS:
portswigger.net/web-security/cross-site-scripting/preventing - 7. Bounds Checking:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounds_checking - 8. Integer Overflow:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_overflow - 9. Buffer Overflow:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow - 10. XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet:
owasp.org/www-project-cheat-sheets/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Scripting_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html - 11. Rust is memory-safe:
acks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-component-in-rust - 12. OWASP Top Ten 2017: 77% of apps have XSS in them.
www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/web-application-vulnerabilities-statistics-2019 ...
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