Hacking Exposed Web 2.0: Web 2.0 Security Secrets and Solutions

Any Web 2.0 startup must consider security risks from the start. This interesting book, Hacking Exposed Web 2.0, mainly identifies the types of attacks which are faced daily by Web 2.0 sites, the authors give advice on how to identify and mitigate these threats.

The book shows how hackers perform reconnaissance, choose their entry point, and attack Web 2.0-based services, and reveals detailed countermeasures and defense techniques. You'll learn how to avoid injection and buffer overflow attacks, fix browser and plug-in flaws, and secure AJAX, Flash, and XML-driven applications. Real-world case studies illustrate social networking site weaknesses, cross-site attack methods, migration vulnerabilities, and IE7 shortcomings.

A must for any Web 2.0 startup :-)