Hacking Exposed 5th Edition

Get right to fixing the problem and keeping the attackers out.

• Pay special attention to highlighted user input as bold text in the code listing.

• Every attack is accompanied by an updated Risk Rating derived from three components based on the authors' combined experience:

  Popularity:	The frequency of use in the wild against live targets, with 1 being rarest, 10 being widely used
  Simplicity:	The degree of skill necessary to execute the attack, with 1 being a seasoned security programmer, 10 being little or no skill
  Impact:	The potential damage caused by successful execution of the attack, with 1 being revelation of trivial information about the target, 10 being superuser-account compromise or equivalent
  Risk Rating:	The overall risk rating (average of the preceding three values)