1LET’S HACK A WEBSITE
This book will teach you the essential security knowledge you need to be an effective web developer. Before getting started on that, it’s a useful exercise to see how you would go about attacking a website. Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of our adversary to see what we are up against. This chapter will show you how hackers operate and how easy it is to get started hacking.
Software Exploits and the Dark Web
Hackers take advantage of security holes in software such as websites. In the hacking community, a piece of code that illustrates how to take advantage of a security flaw is called an exploit. Some hackers—the good guys, ...
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