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Developer's Guide to Web Application Security
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Developer's Guide to Web Application Security

by Michael Cross
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
16h 12m
English
Syngress
Content preview from Developer's Guide to Web Application Security
Recognizing the
Impact of Mobile Code Attacks
Plain HTML code does not have the power to make decisions or access information
on a system. If you add mobile code to the mix, however, it allows third parties to
send in little “agents” to do the dirty work.These agents can be silent, sneaky, and
malicious.They can retrieve information about your system, or from a user, and send
it back to a server on the Internet.
A firewall offers little safety when it comes to mobile code. If users have Web
browsing access, mobile code can also come into their systems.There is, unfortu-
nately, no realistic way to cut off e-mail messages and programs that originate fr ...
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ISBN: 9781597490610