Developer's Guide to Web Application Security

However, hackers generally do not just stumble across someone’s source code. If

information is proprietary, it is going to be well protected.That being the case, infor-

mation piracy is often the catalyst for other types of hacking. In the case of the

hackers viewing the Microsoft source code, an originating attack had to occur that

gained the intruders access to the Microsoft network; in this instance, a Trojan horse.

Let’s move on to other methods used to gain unauthorized access into a network.

Recognizing Web

Application Security Threats

Attacks against Web applications are extremely difficult to defend against. Most com-

panies are still struggling ...