1 Know your enemy
In this chapter
- How hackers attack you and why
- How you will be affected if your site gets hacked
- How paranoid you should be
- How to start addressing the risk of being hacked
Launching a web application on the internet is a daunting task. The steps you take along the road to deploying a web app can be onerous: designing and coding your web pages, adding interactivity using JavaScript, implementing the backend services and connecting them to a data store, choosing a hosting platform, and registering a domain name. The result is worthwhile, of course: your website will be available to billions of users immediately, thanks to the magic of the internet.
Not all these users have good intentions, though. The internet hosts a complex ...
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