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Marcus Pinto Books

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Marcus Pinto is a consultant specializing in web application security and penetration testing.

Known for: The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

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The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

security·10 min read

This comprehensive guide explores the techniques and tools used by professional penetration testers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in web applications. It covers authentication, session management, input validation, and advanced attack methods, providing practical examples and countermeasures for securing modern web systems.

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Mapping the Web Application Landscape

Every meaningful attack begins with understanding. A web application is fundamentally a conversation between client and server mediated by HTTP. Yet under this apparent simplicity lies immense complexity — cookies, forms, headers, redirects, asynchronous requests, and custom logic dancing in fragile...

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Breaking Authentication

If the portal through which users authenticate can be tricked, the rest of the fortress falls without resistance. A huge proportion of compromised systems trace back to flawed authentication design. Too often passwords are stored weakly, login functions expose behavior through error messages, or aux...

From The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws

About Marcus Pinto

Marcus Pinto is a consultant specializing in web application security and penetration testing.

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