How long does it take to read The Web Application Hacker's Handbook?
Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto takes about 15 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 24 minutes
A long haul
First published 2007. 840 pages, about 231,000 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e-commerce and other web applications. The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms, injecting code, exploiting logic flaws and compromising other users. Because every web application is different, attacking them entails bringing to bear various general principles, techniques and experience in an imaginative way. The most successful hackers go beyond this, and find ways to automate their bespoke attacks. This handbook describes a proven methodology that combines the virtues of human intelligence and computerized brute force, often with devastating results. The authors are professional penetration testers who have been involved in web application security for nearly a decade. They have presented training courses at the Black Hat security conferences throughout the world. Under the alias "PortSwigger", Dafydd developed the popular Burp Suite of web application hack tools.
Subjects: Computer Technology, Nonfiction, Security measures, Computer security, Internet, Internet, security measures
