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Grokking Web Application Security
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Grokking Web Application Security

by Malcolm McDonald
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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7 Network vulnerabilities

In this chapter

  • How monster-in-the-middle attacks can be used to snoop on unencrypted traffic
  • How your users can be misdirected by DNS poisoning attacks and doppelganger domains
  • How your certificates and encryption keys could be compromised—and what to do if they are

In chapter 6, we looked at vulnerabilities that occur in the browser. In chapter 8, we will start to look at how web servers exhibit vulnerabilities. Between the two, however, are a lot of internet and a large class of vulnerabilities that occur as traffic passes back and forth.

Securing traffic passing over the internet is theoretically a solved problem: a modern browser supports strong encryption, and obtaining a certificate for your web application ...

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